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Project X is a multi-megawatt proton facility being developed to support intensity frontier research in elementary particle physics, with possible applications to nuclear physics and nuclear energy research, at Fermilab. The centerpiece of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-29 S. Nagaitsev

The power of the proton beam of a high-power spallation neutron source generally ranges from 100 kW to several MW. The distribution of the power density of the beam on the target is critical for the stable operation of the high-power…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Yang Xiaoyun , Jing Hantao , Tian Binbin , Ou Li , Sun Yankun , Gao Xiaolong

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…

Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), one project of the 12th five-year-plan scheme of China, is under construction in Guangdong province. Three neutron spectrometers will be installed at the first phase of the project, where…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 Li-Chao Tian , Bin Tang , Xiao-Hu Wang , Rong-Guang Liu , Jian Zhang , Yuan-Bo Chen , Zhi-Jia Sun , Hong Xu , Gui-An Yang , Qiang Zhang

The JSNS$^2$ experiment is aimed to search for sterile neutrino oscillations using a neutrino beam from muon decays at rest. The JSNS$^2$ detector contains 17 tons of 0.1\% gadolinium (Gd) loaded liquid scintillator (LS) as a neutrino…

Beam loss is a critical issue in high-intensity accelerators, and much effort is expended during both the design and operation phases to minimize the loss and to keep it to manageable levels. As new accelerators become ever more powerful,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 M. A. Plum

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…

The new FNAL 750keV injector upgrade for the replacement of the 40 year old Fermi National Laboratory (FNAL) Cockcroft-Walton accelerators with a new ion source and 200MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT)…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. S. Bollinger

The ITER Heating Neutral Beam (HNB) injector is required to deliver 16.7 MW power into the plasma from a neutralised beam of H-/D- negative ions, produced by an RF source and accelerated up to 1 MeV. To enhance the H-/D- production, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 M. Barbisan , R. Pasqualotto , A. Rizzolo

We propose a new approach for a high-density free-neutron target, primarily aimed at nuclear astrophysics reaction studies in inverse kinematics with radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. The target concept integrates four key…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia , César Domingo-Pardo , Iris Dillmann , Yuri A. Litvinov

Project-X is a leading candidate of the next major accelerator construction project at Fermilab. The mission need of Project-X is to establish an intensity frontier for particle physics research, or more precisely, to build a multi-MW…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 W. Chou

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is intended to become the most powerful spallation neutron source in the world and the flagship of neutron science in the upcoming decades. The exceptionally high neutron flux will provide unique…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-10 M. Klausz , K. Kanaki , T. Kittelmann , R. Toft-Petersen , J. O. Birk , M. A. Olsen , P. Zagyvai , R. J. Hall-Wilton

Project-X is a proposed project to be built at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with several potential missions. A primary part of the Project-X accelerator chain is a Superconducting linac, and In October 2009 a workshop was held to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 J. Galambos , R. Garoby , S. Geer

A new experiment to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron is being developed for installation at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This experiment will be performed in liquid helium at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-22 T. M. Ito , D. H. Beck , S. M. Clayton , C. Crawford , S. A. Currie , W. C. Griffith , J. C. Ramsey , A. L. Roberts , R. Schmid , G. M. Seidel , D. Wagner , W. Yao

Exciting new fundamental scientific questions are currently being raised regarding nonequilibrium dynamics in spin systems, as this directly relates to low power and low loss energy transport for spintronics. Inelastic neutron scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-17 Chengyun Hua , David A. Tennant , Andrei Savici , Vladislav Sedov , Gabriele Sala , Barry Winn

In order to update the beam power from 100 kW to 250 kW in China spallation neutron source (CSNS) Phase II, one of the important measures is to replace the 80 meters long beam transport line between the present 80 MeV linac injector and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 LI Zhi-Hui , FU Shi-Nian

Neutrino beam facilities, like spallation neutron facilities, produce copious quantities of neutrinos from the decay at rest of mesons and muons. The viability of decay-in-flight neutrino beams as sites for decay-at-rest neutrino studies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-21 C. Grant , B. R. Littlejohn

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…