Tuesday, January 8, 2008

When experiments work

We started our first experiments today, which will continue for another 6 days and finish next Monday. I had the somewhat challenging job of setting up our beamline, which went pretty well with only a couple of hitches. Not bad, considering it's been a while since I last did it! (... 5 months or so)

The first experiment that we did worked beautifully straight off. Now I have the task of convincing the student that not all synchrotron experiments are like that!

It's currently 10:15 pm and we have just put a new sample in. Will hang around for an hour or so to see what it does and then head off to bed. More later...

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