Sources available: Cu, Fe and Co.

Detector: Scintillation and fast Lynx Eye Solid State Strip detector.

For doing XRD of thin films at very low angles Goebel mirror is available.

Geometry: Bragg–Brentano Geometry for powder samples as well as in the parallel beam geometry for thin film samples.

The High Magnetic Field Low Temperature Facility was set up at UGC -DAE CSR-Kolkata Centre as a multi-institutional multi-user project.

The facility consists of

• A cryogen-free 15 Tesla superconducting magnet with integrated variable temperature insert for magneto-transport measurements in the temperature range 1.5 to 300K


• A SQUID magnetometer up to 7T field in the temperature range 2-400K with an evercool dewar along with an ac susceptometer(upto 1 kHz).


• 4K CCR based system is capable to measure electrical conductivity of samples in zero magnetic field.

A digital positron lifetime spectrometer is being installed.

Two tapered cone BaF₂ scintillator detectors (coupled to Hamamatsu R3377 photo-multiplier tubes) have been used.

The anode signals from the detectors, are coupled to CAEN based digitizer. o

Currently a 250 MHz digitizer (CAEN DTS 5725) are being used.

The preliminary results are shown, wherein the prompt time resolution obtained is around 280 ps.