
From Sicily to Sweden: Ion Source Delivered
The first machine components were lowered into the Accelerator Tunnel Tuesday as ESS took delivery of the LINAC's Ion Source and Low-Energy Beam Transport line from Italy's INFN.
Read MoreESS will be one of the most technologically advanced Big Science facilities on the planet. It will host the world's most powerful linear proton accelerator, the first target system of its kind, the most efficient moderator-reflector system ever designed, and 1.68 million facility control points.
The ESS accelerator high level requirements are to provide a 2.86 ms long proton pulse at 2 GeV at repetition rate of 14 Hz. This represents 5 MW of average beam power with a 4% duty cycle on target.
The spallation process at ESS will take place when the accelerated proton beam hits the tungsten bricks of the 11-tonne target, producing unprecedented neutron brightness for scientific experiments across multiple disciplines.
The Integrated Control System (ICS) for the European Spallation Source is a complex network of hardware, software and configuration databases that integrates the operations of all the various parts of the Accelerator, Target, Instrument and Conventional Facility infrastructures. It is based on the EPICS framework.
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