The OGG carries out specific research activities for the development of instrumentation, experimental techniques and simulation codes in the relevant fields of research at ESRF/ILL and runs scientific initiatives like the joint Surface Electrochemistry Laboratory with ESRF.

The scientific personnel at the OGG, mainly permanent or fixed term contracts, at the researcher or doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow levels, are in charge of defined science programs (see projects and thematic sections pages in the left menu) besides providing scientific support service to the INFM and national communities.

The INFM projects sited in Grenoble are:

the Sinchrotron Radiation projects :

GILDA ( http://www.lnf.infn.it/esperimenti/puls/gilda.html or
http://www.esrf.fr/exp_facilities/BM8/handbook/control.html ) : a general purpose beamline at ESRF operated by an INFM, CNR and INFN CRG (Collaborating Research Group), headed by Prof. Mobilio, mainly devoted to investigation of local structures using a tuneable x-ray beam in the range 5-80 keV;

AXES : a collaboration between the group of Prof. Braicovich and the ID08 team, headed by dr. N. Brooks, for the development of an instrumental station for dichroic x-ray emission spectroscopies studies;

Inelastic X-ray Scattering : a collaboration between the group of Prof. Ruocco and the ID16 team for the development of instrumentation devoted to inelastic scattering of X-ray to study excitations in disordered systems;

ESRF-INFM joint Laboratory for Electrochemistry: a collaboration between
the group of dr. Felici and the ID32 team devoted to the structural characterization of solid-liquid interfaces. In this frame a joint electrochemically laboratory is hosted in the OGG building;

PURS : projects aimed to a wider involvement of INFM groups in the utilisation and development of instrumentation for synchrotron radiation experiments, selected and financed by the Committee for Synchrotron Radiation in collaboration with Sections.

the Neutron scattering projects :
IN13 : a CRG instrument at ILL consisting in a backscattering geometry thermal neutron spectrometer operated jointly by the Université J. Fourier of Grenoble and by the INFM Unit of the University of Parma, mainly dedicated to dynamics investigations in biological compounds;

BRISP: a CRG instrument at ILL consiting in a Brillouin neutron spectrometer proposed in the framework of a collaboration between INFM, Units of Florence and of Perugia, and the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) to investigate the dynamic structure factor at small transferred wavevectors over a broad energy range.

NEUTRON SIMULATION

The INFM Thematic Section B, C, D, E and F are present at the OGG with 6 active research lines.

The OGG is also involved in several European and national projects whose financing will be demanded in the current year.
The OGG is a partner of the FIRB project on Nanotubes (Coordinator S. Modesti at TASC-INFM) with the task of studying the structural characterization of the first growth stages of carbon nanotubes and carbides.

Support to the Italian users community is carried out through several actions: by giving information and advice for the submission of well-documented proposals, by offer technical assistance for the preparation, adaptation or construction of special parts for the experiments, sample preparation and access to the facilities, by access to a small workshop laboratory and by availability of office space to perform data analysis and calculations. The access to these services is subordinated to preliminary authorization (see OGG facilities page in the left menu and Users & Opportunities section).

Logistic and organization assistance is offered to medium and long term visiting sientists from Italian institutions and to younger scientists post doctoral fellows, doctoral and thesis students, (see Users & Opportunities
section).

In order to promote a wider use of large scale facilties and new field applications, OGG activity also includes the organization of dedicated thematic workshops to which experts from ESRF, ILL and other international labs are invited.

In the Italian use of facilities pages on the left menu some data and graphs containing the use of ESRF and ILL by the Italian community are reported.