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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Pilar Coloma , Ivan Esteban , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Javier Menendez

The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden will become the world's most powerful thermal neutron source. The Macromolecular Diffractometer (NMX) at the ESS requires three 51.2 x 51.2~cm$^{2}$ detectors with reasonable detection…

A central component of the European Spallation Source is the high-power proton accelerator. The accelerator aims in the future to provide 2 GeV protons to a rotating tungsten target for the production of neutrons at 5 MW of average beam…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-24 Douglas D. DiJulio , Mamad Eshraqi , Wolfgang Hees , Yvonne Hinrichsen , Esben Klinkby , Anton Lundmark , Gunter Muhrer , Daniel Noll

The ESS Neutrino Super-Beam (ESSnuSB) is a proposed long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, performed with a high-intensity neutrino beam, to be developed as an extension to the European Spallation Source proton linac currently under…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-11 Alexander Burgman , Joochun Park , Joakim Cederkäll , Peter Christiansen

The ESS$\nu$SB project proposes to base a neutrino ''Super Beam'' of unprecedented luminosity at the European Spallation Source. The original proposal identified the second peak of the oscillation probability as the optimal to maximize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-15 M. Blennow , E. Fernandez-Martinez , T. Ota , S. Rosauro-Alcaraz

In the future several Spallation Source facilities will be available worldwide. Spallation Sources produce large amount of neutrinos from decay-at-rest muons and thus can be well adapted to accommodate state-of-the-art neutrino experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-02 R. Lazauskas , C. Volpe

Due to the Helium-3 crisis, alternatives to the standard neutron detection techniques are becoming urgent. In addition, the instruments of the European Spallation Source (ESS) require advances in the state of the art of neutron detection.…

Neutron scattering techniques offer a unique combination of structural and the dynamic information of atomic and molecular systems over a wide range of distances and times. The increasing complexity in science investigations driven by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-30 Giacomo Mauri

The wavelengths and energies of thermal and cold neutrons are ideally matched to the length and energy scales in the materials that underpin technologies of the present and future: ranging from semiconductors to magnetic devices, composites…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. E. Mason , T. A. Gabriel , R. K. Crawford , K. W. Herwig , F. Klose , J. F. Ankner

The boron-10 based Multi-Grid detector is being developed as an alternative to helium-3 based neutron detectors. At the European Spallation Source, the detector will be used for time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy at cold to thermal neutron…

Recently, a new neutron spectroscopy for the dynamics in complex (bio-) systems has been proposed [A. Benedetto, and G. J. Kearley, Sci. Rep. 6, 34266, (2016)]. This spectroscopy is ideal where only the overall relaxation time in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-21 Antonio Benedetto , Gordon J. Kearley

The ESS$\nu$SB project is a proposed neutrino oscillation experiment based on the European Spallation Source with the search for leptonic CP as its main aim. In this letter we show that a near detector at around 1 km distance from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Mattias Blennow , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

Transport calculations for neutronic design require accurate nuclear data and validated computational tools. In the Spallation Physics Group, at the European Spallation Source, we perform shielding and neutron beam calculations to help the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-11 Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian , Douglas D. DiJulio , Günter Muhrer

The detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) opens new possibilities for neutrino physics within and beyond the Standard Model. Following the initial discovery in 2017, several experimental attempts have emerged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Thomas Rink

The characteristics of the Solid-state Neutron Detector, under development for neutron-scattering measurements at the European Spallation Source, have been simulated with a Geant4-based computer code. The code models the interations of…

The aim of this short note is to present an option for a source of ultracold neutrons (UCNs), which could profit from the pulse time-structure of the future ESS spallation neutron source in Lund, and thus which could produce a very high UCN…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-30 Valery V. Nesvizhevsky

The CAMEA ESS neutron spectrometer is designed to achieve a high detection efficiency in the horizontal scattering plane, and to maximize the use of the long pulse European Spallation Source. It is an indirect geometry time-of-flight…

We study the sensitivity of detectors with directional sensitivity to coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS), and how these detectors complement measurements of the nuclear recoil energy. We consider stopped pion and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 M. Abdullah , D. Aristizabal Sierra , Bhaskar Dutta , Louis E. Strigari