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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$\nu$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

CSPEC is the cold chopper spectrometer of the European Spallation Source (ESS) and will come on-line with the ESS beam on target. CSPEC will be the first cold chopper spectrometer on a long pulsed spallation source which provides great…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-20 P. P. Deen , S. Longeville , G. Fabreges , W. Lohstroh , L. Loaiza , F. Moreira , D. Noferini

The design and performance of the new Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge are described. CNCS is a direct geometry inelastic time-of-flight spectrometer, designed to cover essentially the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ehlers , A. Podlesnyak , J. L. Niedziela , E. B. Iverson

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…

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

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is the first high-performance pulsed neutron source in China, which will meet the increasing fundamental research and technique applications demands domestically and overseas. A new distributed data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-17 H. L. Tian , J. R. Zhang , L. L. Yan , M. Tang , L. Hu , D. X. Zhao , Y. X. Qiu , H. Y. Zhang , J. Zhuang , R. Du

We describe theoretical and practical aspects of spin-echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS) as well as the potential combination with SANS. Based on the preliminary technical designs of SKADI (a SANS instrument proposed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-17 André Kusmin , Wim G. Bouwman , Ad A. van Well , Catherine Pappas

The cryogenic system for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is designed by Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) personnel and is based on the existing JLab facility. Our task is to use the JLab control system design [2] as much as practical while…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 W. H. Strong , P. A. Gurd , J. D. Creel , B. S. Bevins

After measuring in 2012 a relatively large value of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$, the door is now open to observe for the first time a possible CP violation in the leptonic sector. The measured value of $\theta_{13}$ also…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 Marcos Dracos

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…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) opens new approaches for the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The NUCLEUS experiment aims to use the intense antineutrino flux produced from nuclear reactor cores to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-07 Giorgio Del Castello

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…

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is a partnership between six laboratories. To ensure a truly integrated control system, many standards have been agreed upon, including the use of EPICS as the basic toolkit. However, unique within the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Lewis , C. A. Lionberger , P. T. Cull

VOR, the versatile optimal resolution chopper spectrometer, is designed to probe dynamic phenomena that are currently inaccessible for inelastic neutron scattering due to flux limitations. VOR is a short instrument by the standards of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 P. P. Deen , A. Vickery , K. H. Andersen , R. Hall-Wilton

In Forschungszentrum Juelich the control and data acquisition systems for several neutron spectrometers are being built. Because some of these spectrometers will be commissioned to the new research reactor FRM-II at the technical university…

The European Spallation Source, currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a multidisciplinary international laboratory. Once completed to full specifications, it will operate the world's most powerful pulsed neutron source. Supported…

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 first eight years of operation of the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge is being reviewed. The instrument has been part of the facility user program since 2009, and more than 250…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-12 Georg Ehlers , Andrey A. Podlesnyak , Alexander I. Kolesnikov

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