Introducing the Diffraction & Imaging Division at ESS

by Mikhail Feygenson (European Spallation Source ERIC)

Monday 10 Nov 2025, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Berlin

PH HS 3 (Physics Department)

The European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) is one of the largest and most advanced research infrastructures worldwide, supported by 13 member and observer countries as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Our facility will provide the most powerful pulsed neutron source globally, enabling a wide range of scientific applications across materials science, engineering, and energy research. It is currently being built in Lund, Sweden. The initial suite of neutron instruments will consist of 15 instruments, covering a wide range of elastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. Within the Diffraction & Imaging Division, six instruments will offer advanced neutron diffraction and imaging capabilities, including time-of-flight neutron imaging, powder diffraction, engineering diffraction, and single-crystal diffraction with polarized neutrons.  In this talk, I will provide an overview of those instruments and the current status of the ESS project. The update on the sample environment equipment, as well as the current status of data reduction and data visualization software for diffraction and imaging, will be given. Finally, I will discuss the commissioning plans and early science ideas for the first three instruments.

References

1.  Andersen, K.H et al., “The instrument suite of the European Spallation Source”, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 957, 163402 (2020).