The 3rd Workshop on Muon Science Technology and Industry (MELODY2026)

23 Oct 2026, 09:00 → 26 Oct 2026, 17:30 Asia/Shanghai

Sheng WANG (王生) (CSNS), Yu BAO (鲍煜) (CSNS)

    中国散裂中子源缪子源实验站第三届缪子应用研讨会（The 3rd Workshop on Muon Science Technology and Industry，MELODY2026）将于2026年10月23日至10月26日在广东省东莞市召开。缪子源装置是中国散裂中子源二期工程中的重要组成部分。作为国内首个缪子源，装置的建设对国内缪子相关领域的研究具有重要意义。本次研讨会将围绕缪子束流装置运行及其新技术发展、缪子自旋旋转/弛豫/共振（muSR）谱学技术与应用、负缪子束元素分析等专题进行汇报和深入交流，并为中国散裂中子源的缪子源设计、建设、运行提供指导和建议。 

    诚挚邀请各位同仁踊跃参会，交流最新研究成果。 

一、会议时间和地点 
（一）会议时间：2026年10月24日–26日。
（二）会议地点：广东省东莞市东莞松山湖华美达广场酒店 

      会议地址：松山湖大道工业西路转科技四路
二、报到 
（一）报到时间：2026年10月23日。
（二）费用：会议不收取注册费，食宿统一安排，费用自理。


The 3rd Workshop on Muon Science TechnoLogy and Industry (MELODY2026) will be held in Dongguan, Guangdong, China, from October 23 to 26, 2026.
The workshop sessions will take place from October 24 to 26, 2026, and participants should arrive and check in on October 23, 2026.

This workshop will focus on muon technology development, muSR applications, negative muon applications, and other relevant topics related to the muon station of CSNS, named MELODY (Muon station for sciEnce, technoLOgy, and inDustrY). The construction of MELODY officially started in January 2024, and the project is expected to be completed by October 2029.

The workshop is organized by the Spallation Neutron Source Science Center and the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Arrival and on-site check-in: October 23, 2026
Workshop dates: October 24–26, 2026
Registration Fee: Free of charge
Accommodation and Meals: Arranged by the organizers. The organizers will cover the accommodation and meal expenses for invited guests. All other participants are responsible for their own expenses.
Venue: Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Dongguan Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Address: Keji 4th Road, Gongye West Road, Songshanhu Avenue, Liaobu Town, Dongguan, Guangdong, China


Secretaries:
王晓曼 WANG Xiaoman
莫晓茵 MO Xiaoyin

 

会议手册V2.pdf

Friday, 23 October

Registration

Convener: Mo Xiaoyin (CSNS)

Saturday, 24 October

1 Welcome

2 Pulsed muon facility

Speaker: Adrian Hillier (ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

3 Progress of MELODY and its applications

4 Status of TRIUMF

Speaker: Kenji Kojima (TRIUMF/UBC)

5 Coffee break & photo

6 Laser-driven compact muon source (LACMUS) production optimization for versatile applications

Speaker: Feng Zhang (Laser Fusion Research Center, CAEP)

7 Super-MuSR

Speaker: Rhea Stewart (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Lab)

8 Muon microscopy

Speaker: Yukinori Nagatani (KEK IMSS)

9 Lunch

10 Making efficient use of pulsed muon beams: transient μSR

Speaker: Shoichiro Nishimura (KEK IMSS)

11 Exploring Structure and Dynamics in Energy Materials: The Complementary Power of Muons and Neutrons

Speaker: Martin Mansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

12 What muons can tell you about energy materials

Speaker: Peter Baker (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)

13 Coffee break

14 Superconductivity with broken time-reversal symmetry in Sr2RuO4: pros and cons

Speaker: Vadim Grinenko (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

15 Unconventional superconductivity in topological chiral crystal

Speaker: Tian Shang (East China Normal University)

16 Persistent spin dynamics in magnetically ordered honeycomb cobalt oxides

Speaker: Ping Miao (IHEP)

17 Probing the symmetry of altermagnetic interactions

Speaker: Qisi Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

18 Dinner

Sunday, 25 October

19 Applications of negative muons in heritage science at J-PARC

Speaker: Kenya Kubo

20 Muon-induced X-ray emission at PSI: from elemental analysis towards tomography

Speaker: Michael Heiss (PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences (CNM))

21 A deep dive into materials with negative muons

Speaker: Sayani Biswas (ISIS Neutron and Muon Source)

22 Coffee break

23 Possible machine-learning μSR data analysis collaborating with ASEAN

Speaker: Isao Watanabe (RIKEN)

24 Interfacial passivation for stable carbon-electrodes-based perovskite solar cells and modules

Speaker: Duangmanee Wongratanaphisan (Chiang Mai University)

25 Waste-to-energy materials: unlocking the potential of biomass for sustainable storage technologies

Speaker: Thapanee Sarakonsri (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)

26 Coupled dimerized quantum spin chains in Cu5SbO6

Speaker: Chairote Piyakulworawat (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University)

27 Lunch

28 Effective phase transition identification with dimensional reduction techniques on the muon spectroscopy data

Speaker: Zulkaida Akbar (National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN))

29 Muon spin relaxation in nanoscale magnetic materials: current results and future opportunities for Indonesian rare-earth functional materials

Speaker: Suci Winarsih (National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN))

30 The rational synthesis of next-generation core–shell adsorbents for efficient CO2 capture

Speaker: Nurul Asikin Binti Mijan (Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia)

31 Reusable dry-laminated PVC thermal interface engineering for flexible carbon electrode-based perovskite solar cells and modules

Speaker: Woraprom Passatorntaschakorn (Materials Science Research Center, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand)

32 Tour to CSNS/MELODY

33 Banquet

Monday, 26 October

34 Expanding Monetary History with Muons: New Insights on Rome’s First Coinage

Speaker: Liv Yarrow

35 Muon Physics and Applications: A View from Cultural Heritage Research

Speaker: Dr Gen Li (Palace Museum)

36 Without scratching the surface: depth profiling compositional muon analysis of ancient faience from Egypt and Sudan

Speaker: Juliet Spedding (British Museum and University of Liverpool)

37 Coffee break

38 Unravelling quantum materials with μSR and complementary probes

Speaker: Prof. Guoqiang Zhao (KITS,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

39 μSR studies of spin dynamics in frustrated rare-earth magnets

Speaker: Hanjie Guo (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory)

40 Neutrons say 'disordered', muons say 'ordered': crystal field physics and insights into local probes in SrTm2O4

Speaker: Prof. Haifeng Li (University of Macau)

41 Lunch

42 μSR in water: new insights into muon-biology

Speaker: Amba Datt Pant (KEK/J-PARC center, Japan)

43 When Charge Order Meets Superconductivity: Insights from Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Speaker: Yasmine Sassa (KTH)

44 Muon acceleration

Speaker: Xueqing Yan (Peking University)

45 Coffee break

46 NMR Probe for Spinon Excitations in Quantum Magnets

Speaker: Prof. Weiqiang Yu (Renmin University of China)

47 Complementary muon-spin relaxation and neutron scattering studies of heavy fermion materials

Speaker: Michael Smidman (Zhejiang University)

48 Probing muonium reactivity in low-valent main-group compounds: μSR studies of NHC-stabilized germanium(II) dichloride complexes and phosphasilenes

Speaker: Prof. Yuanjing Cai (Beijing University of Chemical Technology)

49 Close out