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.
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Technology
ESS 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.
Accelerator Systems
42 In-Kind Work Packages, from 18 Institutes, in 8 Countries
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.
How Do You Power the World’s Most Powerful Linac?
Carlos Martins and his ESS power converters team have successfully brought a new high-voltage modulator design to series production.
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The Accelerator Comes Together in Lund: A Talk With Roland Garoby
“It is really a treasure chest that is being built here.”
Read MoreTarget Systems
21 In-Kind Work Packages from seven Institutes in six Countries
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.
Butterfly Moderator Manufacturing Completed at Jülich
The ESS Target Division has announced that manufacturing of all three Butterfly V2 cold moderators was completed in December.
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Machine Systems Advance at Bilbao as Spain Makes a Move Toward Full ERIC Membership
The Spanish government has moved forward in its process to become a full member of the European Spallation Source ERIC. The agreement allows ESS Bilbao’s critical contributions to the Accelerator and Target systems to advance.
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Novel Technology Advances as Budapest Neutron Centre Leads Optimisation of ESS Moderator
Hungary's BNC-Wigner is building a prototype of the ESS moderator test beamline.
Read MoreIntegrated Control System (ICS)
20 In-Kind Work Packages from 11 Institutes in 9 Countries
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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