Detector Systems
The ESS Detector Group has been working on detector development since 2010 and will continue throughout the Construction Phase.
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Workshops & Facilities
ESS maintains a number of facilities for R&D, including workshops in Lund, test beamlines in Germany and Norway, and a thin films coating facility in Linköping.
- Utgård
- V20 Test Beamline
- The Source Testing Facility
- Detector Coatings Workshop
- EMBLA Workshop
- R2D2 Test Beamline
- ICS Electronic Integration Area
Utgård is a 790 m2 workshop and laboratory in Lund, Sweden.
The industrial warehouse space is shared between the Detector Group, Scientific Activities Division (SAD) and the Integrated Control System Division (ICS). The facility is used to test and develop equipment and prototypes to be used in the construction of ESS.
Integrated Control System
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 facility infrastructures. It is based on the EPICS framework.
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Science Support Systems
The Scientific Activities Division will provide ESS Science Support Systems that include sample environment equipment, scientific laboratories and a future user office.
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The ESS V20 Test Beamline provides real-world conditions for ESS and its partners to test engineering and scientific concepts in the development of instruments and their associated neutron technologies.
Constructed at the Berlin Experimental Reactor (BER) II at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the beamline serves as a general-use test bench for the development of novel experimental methods and components for ESS instrument scientists and neutron technology groups working with optics, detectors, choppers, electrical engineering, and other associated technologies. For this reason, the beamline’s design features an elaborate chopper system that mimics the unique long-pulse time structure of ESS.
Instruments
Fifteen instruments for science are included in the ESS construction project. Each instrument is unique, optimised for obtaining particular kinds of scientific data.
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Instrument Technologies
The Instrument Technologies Division provides the technological tools required for the design, construction and operation of the neutron instruments at ESS.
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The Source Testing Facility at Lund University is a laboratory to test detectors and prototypes.
It is a collaboration between the ESS Detector Group and The Department of Nuclear Physics of Lund University. The facility is situated in the basement of the Physics Faculty at Lund University.
The ESS Detector Coatings Workshop is an in-house production facility that ESS has established in Linköping, Sweden.
This facility carries out the manufacturing of 10B4C coatings needed for the construction of 10B detectors, supplying high quality neutron converters.
The workshop is located near Linköping University due to the close collaboration between the University and ESS. Production capacity exceeds 1000 m2 of 10B4C coatings per year.
EMBLA is a joint mechanical workshop shared between the ESS Chopper and Detector Groups.
This facility includes a fully-equipped machine shop and an area to build detector components and assemblies. In EMBLA, the Detector Group has the capacity to make and customise mechanical components for detectors.
R2D2 is the test beamline that the Detector Group has established in collaboration with Norway's Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) at the JEEP II reactor.
The main goal is to provide a dedicated beam channel for testing of detectors and the development of new neutron techniques relevant to ESS.
Detector Systems
The ESS Detector Group has been working on detector development since 2010 and will continue throughout the Construction Phase.
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BIFROST: A Prismatic Approach to Neutron Spectroscopy
Swiss-Danish team to build a pioneering crystal analyser spectrometer optimised to study dynamics in quantum materials and matter under extreme conditions.
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The Detector Group has established an electronics lab for long-term readout development work at ESS headquarters in Lund.
Integrated Control System
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 facility infrastructures. It is based on the EPICS framework.
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Detector Systems
The ESS Detector Group has been working on detector development since 2010 and will continue throughout the Construction Phase.
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