Performances of Neutron Scattering Spectrometers on a Compact Neutron Source
Abstract
There is currently a big effort put into the operation and construction of world class neutron scattering facilities (SNS and SNS-TS2 in the US, J-PARC in Japan, ESS in Europe, CSS in China, PIK in Russia). On the other hand, there exists a network of smaller neutron scattering facilities which play a key role in creating a large neutron scattering community who is able to efficiently use the existing facilities. With the foreseen closure of the ageing nuclear research reactors, especially in Europe there is a risk of seeing a shrinking of the community who would then be able to use efficiently the world class facilities. There is thus a reflection being conducted in several countries for the replacement of smaller research reactors with low energy accelerator based sources. We consider here a reference design for a compact neutron source based on existing accelerator components. We estimate the performances of various types of neutron scattering instruments built around such a source. The results suggest that nowadays state of the art neutron scattering experiments could be successfully performed on such a compact source and that it is thus a viable replacement solution for neutron research reactors.
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@article{arxiv.1612.00232,
title = {Performances of Neutron Scattering Spectrometers on a Compact Neutron Source},
author = {Xavier Fabrèges and Alain Menelle and Frédéric Ott and Nicolas Chauvin and Jérôme Schwindling and Alain Letourneau and Anthony Marchix and Christiane Alba-Simionesco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00232},
year = {2017}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables