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The upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) will soon provide the most intense neutrino source in the world. We propose the Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the ESS (SHiNESS) experiment, highlighting its unique opportunities to search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-28 Stefano Roberto Soleti , Pilar Coloma , Juan Jose Gómez Cadenas , Anatael Cabrera

European Spallation Source instruments like the macromolecular diffractometer, NMX, require an excellent neutron detection efficiency, high-rate capabilities, time resolution, and an unprecedented spatial resolution in the order of a few…

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

A new Small Angle Neutron Scattering instrument is proposed for the European Spallation Source. The pulsed source requires a time-of-flight analysis of the gathered neutrons at the detector. The optimal instrument length is found to be…

In Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), proton beam is used to hit metal tungsten target, and then high flux neutrons are generated for experiments on instruments. For neutron flux spectrum correction, boron-coated GEM, lithium glass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-22 Jian Zhuang , Ke Zhou , Lijiang Liao , Lei Hu , Jiajie Li , Yongxiang Qiu

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is a pulsed source of neutrons and, as a byproduct of this operation, an intense source of neutrinos via stopped-pion decay. The COHERENT collaboration uses this source to investigate coherent elastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-03 Rebecca Rapp

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…

A sensitive search for neutron-antineutron oscillations can provide a unique probe of some of the central questions in particle physics and cosmology: the energy scale and mechanism for baryon number violation, the origin of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-07 David Milstead

Nowadays neutron scattering science is increasing its instrumental power. Most of the neutron sources in the world are pushing the development of their technologies to be more performing. The neutron scattering development is also pushed by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Francesco Piscitelli

Very intense neutrino beams and large neutrino detectors will be needed to enable the discovery of CP violation in the leptonic sector. The European Spallation Source (ESS), currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a research center…

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 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

In this paper, we study a monitoring method for neutron flux for the spallation target used in an accelerator driven sub-critical (ADS) system, where a spallation target located vertically at the centre of a sub-critical core is bombarded…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Qiang Zhao , Zhiyong He , Lei Yang , Xueying Zhang , Wenjuan Cui , Zhiqiang Chen , Hushan Xu

A prototype quasi-parasitic thermal neutron beam monitor based on isotropic neutron scattering from a thin natural vanadium foil and standard $^3$He proportional counters is conceptualized, designed, simulated, calibrated, and commissioned.…

The Front End of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) extends from the Ion Source (IS), through a 65 keV LEBT, a 402.5 MHz RFQ, a 2.5 MeV MEBT, ending at the entrance to the DTL. The diagnostics suite in this space includes stripline beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Doolittle , T. Goulding , D. Oshatz , A. Ratti , J. Staples

A design study of a horizontal neutron reflectometer adapted to the general baseline of the long pulse European Spallation Source (ESS) is presented. The instrument layout comprises solutions for the neutron guide, high-resolution pulse…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Nekrassov , M. Trapp , K. Lieutenant , J. -F. Moulin , M. Strobl , R. Steitz

European Spallation Source will be the brightest neutron source in the world. It is being built in Lund, Sweden. Over 120 superconducting cavities will be installed in the facility, each regulated by an individual LLRF control system. To…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Maciej Grzegrzółka , Krzysztof Czuba , Mateusz Lipiński , Igor Rutkowski

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 use of nuclear emulsions in very large physics experiments is now possible thanks to the recent improvements in the industrial production of emulsions and to the development of fast automated microscopes. In this paper the hardware…