Conveners
Micro Symposium CANS 1
- Alain Menelle (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (UMR12 CEA-CNRS))
Sweden is hosting the European Spallation Source (ESS), which will be the worlds most brilliant neutron source once it is commissioned. In order to take best benefit of the capabilities of high-end facilities an ecosystem of smaller sources is required but currently Sweden has no neutron source allowing materials research. As a consequence of that the number of experts in the field has...
After completion of assembling the hot commissioning of the compact neutron source CANS facility “LvB” in Martonvásár will start in January 2023. The system consists of a 35 keV proton ion source, a 2.5 MeV RFQ proton accelerator a thin Li layer target, Pb reflector and bi-spectral thermal-cold low dimensional moderator, that can serve up to 8 neutron scattering instruments. In addition, a...
The European Low Energy accelerator-based Neutron facilities Association (ELENA – www.ELENA-neutron.eu) is promoting the development of Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (CANS) and High Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (HiCANS) in Europe. It represents 7 projects and 8 institutions from major European countries: Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Hungary and...
With very few large-scale facilities left to serve a leading community of about 5000 European neutron users in the 2030s, the European neutron ecosystem will become extremely vulnerable and capacity-limited. Neutron research in Europe risks losing its strength and diversity if limited access to neutron beam time makes it extremely difficult to maintain a sustainable research program based on...
High-current accelerator-driven neutron sources (HiCANS) [2] claim to cover the gap of neutron production in Europe created by the shutdown of research reactors. The ARGITU project is one of these initiatives to build a regional neutron source in the Basque Country area (Spain).
In this work, a view of the proposed facility focused on accelerator and target will be given. The accelerator is...
The European landscape of neutron facilities is evolving quickly with the closure of a number of aging research reactors: for example the reactor Orphée in France, BER in Berlin and Kjeller in Norway closed in 2019. While the European Spallation Source (ESS) should start later in this decade, its capacity will not be sufficient to replace the closed facilities. Hence, the Laboratoire Léon...
