Back on your cruise ship take your afternoon tea during enjoying the views of Luxor from the deck. Strong and relaxed enough we start with our first guided tour to the Luxor-and Karnak temples on the East bank of Luxor. Monday Luxor – Aswan 5 days Day 1: Luxor – Isis and Osiris CruiseĪfter we take you from the terminal of the airport from Luxor with our conditioned vehicle to the Nile Cruise ship Isis and Osiris, you can relax with your lunch we will serve on board.
You dream since a long time to spend a luxury vacation on a Nile cruis e, then choose the Isis and Osiris cruise ship which contends 37 deluxe, spacious and luxurious cabins including the super deluxe Amarante suite (45m2).Įnjoy the view to the Nile River from the large panoramic windows and relax with the tastefully furnished in an elegant decor. If you are interested in carrying out experiments using the NILE beamline, then please contact the ChipIR team.Isis and Osiris Cruise Ship Cabins & Suites Ĭhris adds “Whilst we expected this to be useful for our work with RAL Space on the space weather issue, we did not expect to be helping Pawel Majewski from PPD and his team in their hunt for Dark Matter – but a coffee conversation leading to a major collaboration between scientists from different areas is what makes working at RAL so rewarding."Īfter preparing the bunker where the source will be based, the new devices have been installed and first neutrons were produced this week. If they can be used to detect neutrons, this will indicate whether they will be suitable for dark matter detection. The team from PPD will be using the reactors to test their dark matter detectors.
A group at RAL Space who are one of the lead partners in the SWIMMR programme, a major UK project that will improve the UK's capabilities for space weather monitoring and prediction, are helping to fund irradiation studies at ISIS, as well as a team from STFC's Particle Physics Department (PPD). Other departments at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are also collaborating with ISIS on the project. This makes it an even more attractive centre for the many global electronic companies already working with ISIS on ChipIr to ensure the cosmic ray threat is understood and its effects dealt with," explains Chris Frost, the scientist leading the irradiation work at ISIS. “ The new facility further extends and complements the existing irradiation capability at ISIS. The new compact sources will not only be useful during accelerator maintenance periods, but will be a complementary tool for users doing experiments on ChipIr. We have interest already from our collaborators in academia and industry." “Although the new sources doesn't produce the same spectrum of neutrons as in the atmospheric environment," explains Carlo Cazzaniga, ChipIr beamline scientist (left) “ we can use it for comparison studies, as well as method development and training. The reactors will be housed in a bunker at ISIS, similar to the other beamlines, and users can apply for time to use it in the same way as they would for other neutron beamtime. The second accelerates deuterium atoms on a deuterium target, producing 2.5 MeV neutrons.
The neutrons produced have an energy of 14 MeV, compared to the up to 800 MeV produced by the ISIS targets.
There will be two new neutron sources installed as part of NILE: the first accelerates deuterium atoms towards a tritium target, prompting a fusion reaction that produces neutrons and helium atoms. 'Normal' hydrogen does not contain any neutrons, whereas deuterium has one, and tritium two. The desktop set up uses deuterium and tritium: two isotopes of hydrogen that contain different numbers of neutrons. Although this doesn't produce neutrons that cover the same range of energies as in the atmosphere, or at the same yield as ISIS, they can still be used for some of the investigations that would normally take place on ChipIr. Unlike the way ISIS produces neutrons, which requires a proton synchrotron the size of eight football pitches, it is possible to buy a desktop fusion reactor that produces lower energy neutrons. The new neutron sources are being installed in the new Neutron Irradiation Laboratory for Electronics (NILE), and will be used by ISIS users to test the effect of cosmic ray damage on electronics, working alongside the ChipIr instrument.ĬhipIr uses the high-energy neutrons created by ISIS to test the disruption caused by naturally occurring atmospheric cosmic ray neutrons to electronics, including those used in aerospace, internet routers and autonomous vehicles.