A number of ‘small’ improvements to D2B will together produce an order of magnitude increase in efficiency, as well as greater use of very high resolution.
Doubling the number of detectors is possible by decreasing the sample diameter to at most 12 mm (bigger than the usually available samples).
Another factor of x3 can be obtained by increasing the height of the detectors to at least 30mm (the height of the monochromator and beam from the reactor). Standard linear position-sensitive wire detectors can be used to correct for the curvature due to
Finally, a new monochromator with horizontal as well as vertical focussing will double the flux on the sample.