The UK MEIS facility

The Medium Energy Ion Scattering facility at the Daresbury
Laboratory, one of only a few such facilities in the
world, has served the UK community since 1996. It provided
a 50-400 keV ion beam and a very comprehensive experimental
station where samples could be studied and the
energies and angles of the scattered ions measured. It has
now closed, but will be be relocated some 50 miles to the
University of Huddersfield: it will be recommissioned and
should be available to users by the end of 2012. We report
on progress, and on the facilities which will be available
for users at the new site and under the new management.