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The new Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source - Design and Performance

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

Integrating LabVIEW into a Distributed Computing Environment

Being easy to learn and well suited for a self-contained desktop laboratory setup, many casual programmers prefer to use the National Instruments LabVIEW environment to develop their logic. An ActiveX interface is presented that allows…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-27 K. U. Kasemir , M. Pieck , L. R. Dalesio

The Spallation Neutron Source: A Powerful Tool for Materials Research

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

Hardware Aspects, Modularity and Integration of an Event Mode Data Acquisition and Instrument Control for the European Spallation Source (ESS)

The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden is just entering the construction phase with 3 neutron instruments having started in its design concept phase in 2014. As a collaboration of 17 European countries the majority of hardware…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-08 Thomas Gahl , Mark Hagen , Richard Hall-Wilton , Scott Kolya , Mark Koennecke , Miha Rescic , Thomas H. Rod , Iain Sutton , Garry Trahern , Oliver Kirstein

Implementation of a laser-neutron pump-probe capability at HYSPEC

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

Physics Opportunities in the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station Era

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) First Target Station (FTS), used by the COHERENT experiment, provides an intense and extremely high-quality source of pulsed stopped-pion neutrinos, with energies up…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-08 J. Asaadi , P. S. Barbeau , B. Bodur , A. Bross , E. Conley , Y. Efremenko , M. Febbraro , A. Galindo-Uribarri , S. Gardiner , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , M. P. Green , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , J. Liu , A. Major , D. M. Markoff , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , D. Pershey , R. Rapp , D. J. Salvat , K. Scholberg , L. Strigari , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , Y. -T. Tsai , S. E. Vahsen , T. Wongjirad , J. Zettlemoyer

The Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source - A Review of the first 8 Years of Operation

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

Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a pulsed source of neutrons and, as a byproduct of this operation, an intense source of pulsed neutrinos via stopped-pion decay. The COHERENT collaboration uses this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-31 COHERENT Collaboration , D. Akimov , P. An , C. Awe , P. S. Barbeau , B. Becker , V. Belov , I. Bernardi , M. A. Blackston , C. Bock , A. Bolozdynya , J. Browning , B. Cabrera-Palmer , D. Chernyak , E. Conley , J. Daughhetee , J. Detwiler , K. Ding , M. R. Durand , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , L. Fabris , M. Febbraro , J. Galambos , A. Gallo Rosso , A. Galindo-Uribarri , M. P. Green , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , D. Hoang , M. Hughes , E. Iverson , T. Johnson , A. Khromov , A. Konovalov , E. Kozlova , A. Kumpan , L. Li , J. M. Link , J. Liu , K. Mann , D. M. Markoff , J. Mastroberti , M. McIntyre , P. E. Mueller , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , S. I. Penttila , D. Pershey , R. Rapp , H. Ray , J. Raybern , O. Razuvaeva , D. Reyna , G. C. Rich , D. Rimal , J. Ross , D. Rudik , J. Runge , D. J. Salvat , A. M. Salyapongse , K. Scholberg , A. Shakirov , G. Simakov , G. Sinev , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovstsev , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , K. Tellez-Giron-Flores , I. Tolstukhin , S. Trotter , E. Ujah , J. Vanderwerp , R. L. Varner , C. J. Virtue , G. Visser , T. Wongjirad , Y. -R. Yen , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , J. Zettlemoyer , S. Zhang

Use of EPICS for High-Level Control of SNS Conventional Facilities

The SNS Project intends to integrate Conventional Facility Controls with its EPICS-based Accelerator and Target Control Systems. EPICS will therefore be used to provide distributed high-level access to all subsystems of the SNS conventional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 J. K. Munro, , J. E. Cleaves , E. L. Williams, , D. J. Nypaver , K. -U. Kasemir , R. D. Meyer

Opportunities for Neutrino Physics at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

In this paper we discuss opportunities for a neutrino program at the Spallation Neutrons Source (SNS) being commissioning at ORNL. Possible investigations can include study of neutrino-nuclear cross sections in the energy rage important for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-24 Yu Efremenko , W R Hix

The COHERENT Experimental Program

The COHERENT experiment located in Neutrino Alley at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has made the world's first two measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), on CsI and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-12 D. Akimov , S. Alawabdeh , P. An , A. Arteaga , C. Awe , P. S. Barbeau , C. Barry , B. Becker , V. Belov , I. Bernardi , M. A. Blackston , L. Blokland , C. Bock , B. Bodur , A. Bolozdynya , R. Bouabid , A. Bracho , J. Browning , B. Cabrera-Palmer , N. Chen , D. Chernyak , E. Conley , J. Daughhetee , J. Daughtry , E. Day , M. del Valle Coello , J. Detwiler , K. Ding , M. R. Durand , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , L. Fabris , M. Febbraro , W. Fox , J. Galambos , A. Gallo Rosso , A. Galindo-Uribarri , C. Gilbert , M. P. Green , K. R. Hansen , B. Harris , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , R. Henderson , D. Hoang , C. Hughes , M. Hughes , E. Iverson , P. Jairam , B. A. Johnson , T. Johnson , L. Kaufman , A. Khromov , A. Konovalov , J. Koros , E. Kozlova , A. Kumpan , L. Li , J. T. Librande , J. M. Link , J. Liu , A. Major , K. Mann , D. M. Markoff , J. Mastroberti , J. Mattingly , O. McGoldrick , M. McIntyre , Y. A. Melikyan , M. Mishra , P. E. Mueller , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , A. Penne , S. I. Penttila , D. Pershey , C. Prior , D. Radford , F. Rahman , R. Rapp , H. Ray , J. Raybern , O. Razuvaeva , D. Reyna , G. C. Rich , D. Rimal , J. Ross , A. Rouzky , D. Rudik , J. Runge , D. J. Salvat , A. M. Salyapongse , J. Sander , K. Scholberg , P. Siehien , A. Shakirov , G. Simakov , G. Sinev , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovstsev , J. Steele , A. Strasbaugh Hjelmstad , T. Subedi , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , K. Tellez-Giron-Flores , R. T. Thornton , I. Tolstukhin , S. Trotter , F. Tsai , Y. -T. Tsai , E. Ujah , J. Vanderwerp , E. van Nieuwenhuizen , R. L. Varner , S. Vasquez , C. J. Virtue , G. Visser , K. Walkup , J. Wang , E. M. Ward , C. Wiseman , T. Wongjirad , D. Wu , J. Yang , Y. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , J. Zettlemoyer , S. Zhang

HighNESS Conceptual Design Report: Volume I

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-30 V. Santoro , O. Abou El Kheir , D. Acharya , M. Akhyani , K. H. Andersen , J. Barrow , P. Bentley , M. Bernasconi , M. Bertelsen , Y. Bessler , A. Bianchi , G. Brooijmans , L. Broussard , T. Brys , M. Busi , D. Campi , A. Chambon , J. Chen , V. Czamler , P. Deen , D. D. DiJulio , E. Dian , L. Draskovits , K. Dunne , M. El Barbari , M. J. Ferreira , P. Fierlinger , V. T. Fröst , B. T. Folsom , U. Friman-Gayer , A. Gaye , G. Gorini , A. Gustafsson , T. Gutberlet , C. Happe , X. Han , M. Hartl , M. Holl , A. Jackson , E. Kemp , Y. Kamyshkov , T. Kittelmann , E. B. Klinkby , R. Kolevatov , S. I. Laporte , B. Lauritzen , W. Lejon , R. Linander , M. Lindroos , M. Marko , J. I. Márquez Damián , T. C. McClanahan , B. Meirose , F. Mezei , K. Michel , D. Milstead , G. Muhrer , A. Nepomuceno , V. Neshvizhevsky , T. Nilsson , U. Odén , T. Plivelic , K. Ramic , B. Rataj , I. Remec , N. Rizzi , J. Rogers , E. Rosenthal , L. Rosta , U. Rücker , S. Samothrakitis , A. Schreyer , J. R. Selknaes , H. Shuai , S. Silverstein , W. M. Snow , M. Strobl , M. Strothmann , A. Takibayev , R. Wagner , P. Willendrup , S. Xu , S. C. Yiu , L. Yngwe , A. R. Young , M. Wolke , P. Zakalek , L. Zavorka , L. Zanini , O. Zimmer

Analysis of Thermally Induced Frequency Shift for the Spallation Neutron Source RFQ

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Front-End Systems Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) is developing a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) to accelerate an H- beam from 65 keV to 2.5 MeV at the operating frequency of 402.5 MHz.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Virostek , J. Staples

Simulated Fast Neutron Instrument Backgrounds at a MW Spallation Source

Like every megaproject, the European Spallation Source (ESS) currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, has had to make a number of inevitable compromises to remain within budget and on schedule. Some of these compromises carry technical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-18 Phil Bentley

COHERENT 2018 at the Spallation Neutron Source

The primary goal of the COHERENT collaboration is to measure and study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the high-power, few-tens-of-MeV, pulsed source of neutrinos provided by the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Akimov , J. B. Albert , P. An , C. Awe , P. S. Barbeau , B. Becker , V. Belov , M. A. Blackston , A. Bolozdynya , A. Brown , A. Burenkov , B. Cabrera-Palmer , M. Cervantes , J. I. Collar , R. J. Cooper , R. L. Cooper , J. Daughhetee , D. J. Dean , M. del Valle Coello , J. A. Detwiler , M. D'Onofrio , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , E. Erkela , A. Etenko , L. Fabris , M. Febbraro , N. Fields , W. Fox , A. Galindo-Uribarri , M. P. Green , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , E. B. Iverson , M. Kaemingk , L. J. Kaufman , S. R. Klein , A. Khromov , S. Ki , A. Konovalov , A. Kovalenko , A. Kumpan , L. Li , W. Lu , K. Mann , Y. Melikyan , D. M. Markoff , H. Moreno , P. E. Mueller , P. Naumov , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , S. Penttila , G. Perumpilly , D. Radford , R. Rapp , H. Ray , J. Raybern , D. Reyna , G. C. Rich , D. Rimal , D. Rudik , D. J. Salvat , K. Scholberg , B. Scholz , G. Sinev , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovtsev , A. Shakirov , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , R. T. Thornton , I. Tolstukhin , J. Vanderwerp , R. L. Varner , C. J. Virtue , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , J. Zettlemoyer

The CLEAR Experiment

The Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is designed to produce intense pulsed neutrons for various science and engineering applications. Copious neutrinos are a free by-product. When it reaches full power, the SNS will be the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-16 K. Scholberg , T. Wongjirad , E. Hungerford , A. Empl , D. Markoff , P. Mueller , Y. Efremenko , D. McKinsey , J. Nikkel

AGS Super Neutrino Beam Facility Accelerator and Target System Design (Neutrino Working Group Report-II)

This document describes the design of the accelerator and target systems for the AGS Super Neutrino Beam Facility. Under the direction of the Associate Laboratory Director Tom Kirk, BNL has established a Neutrino Working Group to explore…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Diwan

Status of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors positioned along the axis of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-22 Rodrigo Alvarez Garrote

Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector

We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for the purpose of monitoring and characterizing the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-15 COHERENT Collaboration , D. Akimov , P. An , C. Awe , P. S. Barbeau , B. Becker , V. Belov , I. Bernardi , M. A. Blackston , C. Bock , A. Bolozdynya , J. Browning , B. Cabrera-Palmer , D. Chernyak , E. Conley , J. Daughhetee , J. Detwiler , K. Ding , M. R. Durand , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , L. Fabris , M. Febbraro , A. Gallo Rosso , A. Galindo-Uribarri , M. P. Green , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , D. Hoang , M. Hughes , B. A. Johnson , T. Johnson , A. Khromov , A. Konovalov , E. Kozlova , A. Kumpan , L. Li , J. M. Link , J. Liu , K. Mann , D. M. Markoff , J. Mastroberti , P. E. Mueller , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , S. I. Penttila , D. Pershey , R. Rapp , H. Ray , J. Raybern , O. Razuvaeva , D. Reyna , G. C. Rich , J. Ross , D. Rudik , J. Runge , D. J. Salvat , A. M. Salyapongse , K. Scholberg , A. Shakirov , G. Simakov , G. Sinev , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovstsev , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , K. Tellez-Giron-Flores , I. Tolstukhin , E. Ujah , J. Vanderwerp , R. L. Varner , C. J. Virtue , G. Visser , T. Wongjirad , Y. -R. Yen , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , J. Zettlemoyer

Vacuum Controls and Diagnostics

This paper describes the CERN's vacuum control system from the field devices to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software. First, a particular attention is given to the environment present in the accelerators, like noise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-08 G. Pigny , A. Rocha