In the Léon Brillouin Laboratory (LLB), and for the community of neutron scattering, this month of March 2021 was marked by an important event: the first neutron beam of the SHARP* instrument, a new time-of-flight neutron spectrometer, at the European reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble. The result of a close CEA-CNRS-ILL collaboration, with the contribution of the Franco-Swedish agreement for neutron scattering instrumentation, this new device replaces the IN6 spectrometer, installed since the mid-1980s at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble. The very first studies show that the device is fully operational and will soon be open to experimental projects. |