First test of detectors at theinstrument BIODIFF

The BioDiff instrument at the FRM II has seen the installation of its two detectors. A neutron scintillator with CCD-camera detector serves as auxiliary detector to perform crystal alignment and fast measurements with smaller solid angle coverage. The main detector, a neutron image plate with online read-out covers a somewhat larger solid angle of ca. 2π. Whereas the image plate detector could not yet be tested with neutrons so far first neutron measurements conducted with the CCD-detector have been performed and will be presented here. The instrument is intended for neutron protein crystallography and is a collaboration between the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz MaierLeibnitz (FRM II).