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Joint Annual Report 2018 of the MLZ and FRM II Vision for the future We reflect on a year full of changes and many achievements. First of all, we are pleased to welcome two new scientific directors. As of April 2018, Prof. Dr. Peter Müller-Buschbaum, who has been deputising for Prof. Dr. Winfried Petry as Chair of the Institute for Functional Materials at the TUM Physics Department since 2006, took over both as Chair of the Institute and Scientific Director of the FRM II and MLZ. His predecessor, Prof. Petry, officially retired after 17 years as scientific director and was nominated Emeritus of Excellence of the Technical University of Munich in recognition of his outstanding achievements at the TUM. The Forschungszentrum Jülich, a partner that cooperates closely with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), has also appointed a new scientific director. Prof. Dr. Stephan Förster has headed the Jülich Institute for Neutron Scattering (ICS-1/JCNS-1) since April 2017, and since the end of February 2018 also represents the Helmholtz institutions Forschungszentrum Jülich and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht within the scientific directorate of the MLZ. Reinforced by two new MLZ directors, we further developed a vision for the MLZ beyond 2030. This roadmap, as well as the achievements of the MLZ during the years 2014 to 2017, was successfully presented in the MLZ Review 2018 in November. The MLZ aims to be a technologically pre-eminent, reliable, safe and efficient place for neutron research for the advancement of science and our society. This vision, among other things, includes supporting the MLZ users from the first idea for an experiment to the publication of the results, and to drive innovation in automation, digitalisation and robotics. In addition, the MLZ aims to provide a complete state-of-the-art suite of instruments to promote new science. To this end, the instrumentation of the MLZ is continuously in expansion. The new cold neutron three axes spectrometer KOMPASS, which is operated by the TUM and the University of Cologne, first detected neutrons in 2018. It is further proposed to install three scientific instruments from the Berlin neutron source BER II, following the planned shut down in 2019. Furthermore, other neutron research reactors in Europe will cease operation in the coming years. Therefore, after 2019 the MLZ will take up the mantle as the German neutron centre within a changing European neutron landscape. In order to strengthen European neutron science via enhanced collaboration among the facilities, the MLZ, together with seven partners within the European research infrastructure, founded the League of Advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) in September 2018. Ahead of us lies the 15th year of reactor operation at the FRM II. The year 2019 will be decisive for the trans- port of spent fuel elements to the Ahaus interim storage facility. The first of three milestones has already been achieved with the licensing of the transport and storage cask CASTOR MTR-3, which will be able to accom- modate five spent fuel elements from the FRM II. The next steps include the approval of licenses for storing the casks in the interim storage facility Ahaus and, finally, for the transport of the spent fuel elements to Ahaus. Another major task in 2019 will be the completion of our new office and laboratory buildings, bringing all our work force closer together in order to further enhance collaboration and communication between the partners of the MLZ. Let us go forward and tackle together all the challenges that lie ahead to make our vision of the MLZ a reality. Peter Müller-Buschbaum Stephan Förster Johannes Nußbickel Anton Kastenmüller Vision for the future ������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Scientific Highlights& Reports Trapped at the surface ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10 Magnetic vortices: twice as interesting ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10 With a little help from a lipid....................................................................................................................11 New material for medical imaging ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������11 Neutrons explain higher efficiency of solar cells with additives ��������������������������������������������������������������12 Spin glass can mimic quantum spin liquid 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    TheT HE Plasma P LASMA Science S CIENCE && FusionF USION CenterC EN T ER • MMassachusettsASSACHUSE tt S I NSInstituteT I T U T E O Fof T ECHNOLOGYTechnology PHYSICS RESEARCH Understanding the basic physics of plasmas is necessary not only to advance fusion research, but to increase the physics-based foundations of plasma-related scientific disciplines and applications. embers of the Physics Re- search Division, including theoretical and experimen- Mtal plasma physicists, faculty mem- bers, graduate and undergraduate students and visiting collaborators, work together to better understand plasmas and to extend their uses. Research includes: ■ Laboratory experiments ■ Development of novel plasma diagnostics ■ Theory of magnetically confined fusion plasmas Photo by Paul Rivenberg Dr. Jan Egedal works atop the Versatile Toroidal Facility, a medium-sized tokamak currently ■ Nonlinear wave used to study magetic reconnection, a phenomenon observed in solar flares. propagation, turbulence In addition to basic plasma theory, waves to control pressure and current and chaos topics being pursued at the PSFC profiles in order to control instabilities ■ Space plasma physics include tokamak research on radio and achieve steady state operation in frequency heating and current drive, high pressure plasmas. ■ Plasma astrophysics core and edge transport and turbu- ■ Laser-plasma interactions lence, and magnetohydrodynamic and In the area of inertial confinement kinetic stability. This research sup- fusion (ICF), theorists study the ports the PSFC tokamak, Alcator C- ablation process, during which a Theoretical Plasma Physics Mod, and the Levitated Dipole Experi- plasma is created that causes nonlin- ment (LDX), as well as other such ear scattering of the laser light. This Using the fundamental laws of experiments around the world.