Speaker
Description
Accelerator-driven high brilliance neutron sources are an attractive alternative to the classical neutron sources of fission reactors and spallation sources to provide scientists with neutrons. A new class of such neutron facilities has been established referred to as High-Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (HiCANS). The basic features of HiCANS are a medium-energy proton accelerator with of tens of MeV and up to 100 mA beam current, a compact neutron production and moderator unit and an optimized neutron transport system to provide a full suite of high performance, fast, epithermal, thermal and cold neutron instruments.
The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) has established a project to develop, design and demonstrate such a novel accelerator-driven facility termed High Brilliance neutron Source (HBS). The aim of the project is to build a versatile neutron source as a user facility. Embedded in an international collaboration, the HBS project offers the best flexible solutions for scientific and industrial users. The overall conceptual and technical design of the HBS as a blueprint for the HiCANS facility has been published in a series of recent reports.
The status and next steps of the project will be presented, focusing on the high-current linear accelerator and the proton beamline, including a novel multiplexer to distribute the proton beam to three different neutron target stations while adapting a flexible pulse structure.
Funding Agency
Supported by the Innovation Pool project ”High current accelerator systems for future HBS”, Research Field Matter of the German Helmholtz Association (HGF).
Footnotes
Technical Design Report HBS Volume 1 – Accelerator 2023, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag Jülich, ISBN: 978-3-95806-709-7, https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1016730
| Region represented | Europe |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
