TVB Associates is pleased to have supported have supported the Canadian Neutron Beam Laboratory (CNBL) at McMaster University in scientific instrument design services leading up to the opening of the neutron powder diffraction capability with a formal user proposal system.
The CNBL is currently accepting proposals for experiments on the McMaster All-Purpose Diffractometer (MAD). To perform neutron diffraction, this instrument was upgraded with an 80-degree area detector recovered from the former Canadian Neutron Beam Centre. TVB assisted with the integration of the detector into the hardware and instrument control system of MAD.
Some of the first results from user experiments from this instrument were featured at the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS), held on November 14 and 15 at the Université de Montréal.
Users may apply via the CNBL website: https://nuclear.mcmaster.ca/neutron-beams/