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Letter of appreciation to ISIS: for promoting research cooperation in quantum beams
13 Jun 2011
On 2 June 2011, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) presented a letter of appreciation to ISIS, a neutron and muon research facility, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK to express appreciation to ISIS for their collaboration in neutron science.
Osamu Shimomura(left), director for KEK's Institute of Materials Structure Science and Andrew Taylor, director of ISIS.
KEK’s Neutron Science Laboratory (KENS) and ISIS have been conducting collaborative research activities, including the construction of the MARI chopper spectrometer and long-term exchange of researchers, based on the Japan–UK cooperative program that started in 1986. These collaborative activities have helped to advance neutron science in Japan and led to the construction of neutron spectrometers at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). KEK is grateful to ISIS for its distinguished service.
ISIS is a neutron and muon research facility operated by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council（STFC). ISIS and the Diamond Light Source (DLS) *, are conducting research utilizing quantum beams such as neutrons, muons, and X-ray synchrotron radiation, as is the case with KEK's Institute of Materials Structure Science (IMSS). In this last meeting between IMSS and ISIS/DLS, further promotion of international collaboration was agreed, taking advantage of the commonality between IMSS and ISIS/ DLS.
(*) Diamond Light Source
Diamond Light Source is a third generation synchrotron light source facility based at the STFC's Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, South Oxfordshire. Diamond is operated by the Diamond Light Source Ltd, a not-for-profit limited company funded as a joint venture by the UK Government through the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in partnership with the Wellcome Trust.