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ESS-Bilbao, JCNS, and LLB joined forces to develop Europe’s first HICANS Platform (HiCANS stands for "High Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Source"). This project aims to integrate the high current proton accelerator system, currently under construction at ESS Bilbao, with the target-moderator-reflector unit that has been successfully built and operated at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the HERMES reflectometer and Be target owned by LLB. This facility intends to validate and demonstrate the technological developments that will take part of these medium-flux neutron sources.
In this demonstrator, the first stage of the ARGITU source will be used to produce a pulsed proton beam with an energy of 3 MeV and a period of 30 Hz to hit a Lithium target, generating neutrons that are moderated at the desired thermal and cold energy ranges that will be utilized by the HERMES neutron reflectometer.
The instrument has undergone upgrades and improvements, since it was first installed in the COSY platform, such as the installation of a methane moderator, which has increased the reflectivity signal by a factor of two. The installation of the instrument in ESS-Bilbao premises will help to continue its experimental program, as well as paving the way to future integration of neutron scattering and imaging instruments at higher accelerator power.
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