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ICON Layout

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The ICON beamline consists of evacuated neutron flight-tubes looking through a pinhole with selectable diameters into the D2 SINQ cold source. The beamline has 3 measuring positions.
Pos Main feature Options Maximum field of view
1 Aperture wheel 20mm + Be-filter 1, 10, 20, 40, and 80mm
2 Flight tube Energy selector and gratings -
3 Beam limiters    
4 Flight tubes    
5 Imaging of small to medium sized samples Vertical and horizontal scanning of samples 30 x 30 to 150 x 150 mm2
6 Imaging of large samples Vertical and horizontal scanning of samples 250 x 250 mm2

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