Neutron Sources – EPICS Controls

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS)

Ralph Lange — Tue, 21 May 2019 11:17:27 +0000

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), operated by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), has been built at Dongguan city in China.

CSNS mainly consists of an H-linac, a proton rapid cycling synchrotron, a target station and three spectrometers. It is designed to accelerate proton beam pulses to 1.6 GeV energy at 25 Hz repetition rate, striking a solid metal target to produce spallation neutrons. The accelerator is designed to deliver a beam power of 100 kW with the upgrade capability to 500 kW by raising the linac output energy and increasing the beam intensity.

TRIUMF

Ralph Lange — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:51:08 +0000

Established in 1968 in Vancouver, TRIUMF is Canada’s particle accelerator centre. With its 520 MeV cyclotron and – in the near future – a superconducting electron linear accelerator as drivers, TRIUMF provides beams of short-lived radioactive isotopes, muons as well as protons and neutrons, for science, medicine, and business.

In collaboration with 20 Canadian universities, TRIUMF is pushing the frontiers in isotope science and innovation, as well as developing technologies to address fundamental and applied problems in particle and nuclear physics, and the materials and life sciences.

TRIUMF has been using EPICS since 1996.

Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

Ralph Lange — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 13:22:01 +0000

SNS is a one-of-a-kind research facility that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target/moderator system, where neutrons are produced by a process called spallation. State-of-the-art experiment stations provide a variety of capabilities for researchers across a broad range of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology.

With its more intense, brighter source of neutrons and world-class instrumentation, SNS provides the neutron scattering community with unprecedented research opportunities. SNS allows for measurements of greater sensitivity, higher speed, higher resolution, and in more complex sample environments than have been possible at existing neutron facilities.

European Spallation Source ERIC

Timo Korhonen — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:52:57 +0000

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a multi-disciplinary research facility based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. The unique capabilities of this new facility will both greatly exceed and complement those of today’s leading neutron sources, enabling new opportunities for researchers across the spectrum of scientific discovery, including life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics.