>The confirmation of what I suspected : some peoples are
>more equal than others !-).
Perhaps :-) But Armel, if you or some-one else is interested
in setting up a neutron service in Grenoble as fast as at NIST,
we would be very interested. We can provide the equipment
(D1A is quite competitive with the machines at NIST :-) but we
simply don't have the manpower to run it.
Armel keeps telling me that X-rays are cheaper, but in reality
*once you have the neutron source* there is no difference -
the cost is almost all manpower.
>The most productive neutron experts are 3x more
>productive than the X-ray experts
Anybody from the ILL member countries who can write a successful
research grant for a couple of postdocs to run D1A can join the
"most productive neutron experts". This is a serious offer !
BTW, people tend to forget that a high resolution neutron powder
pattern, even on D1A, only takes ~6 hours, faster than most high-
res. X-ray or synchrotron machines. Can you say "cost effective " ?
Alan H.
Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel (33) 4.76.20.72.13
ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif fax (33) 4.76.48.39.06 http://www.ill.fr/dif/
