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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.

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ESS Utgård Collaboration Space (login required)

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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.

Contacts: 

Liaisons

Detector Group     SAD ICS

Alessio Laloni

Detector Technician

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Andreas Hagelberg

Mechatronics and Integration Engineer

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Faye Chicken

Controls Technician

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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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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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Large-Area Detector Prototype Shows Increased Efficiency on Beamline Tests at LLB

A team of researchers from ESS and ILL have made improvements on the first-of-its-kind boron carbide-based large area Multi-Grid detector under development for ESS instruments CSPEC and T-REX.

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All Hands on Deck for IKON13 at ESS

Design freezes, looming installation deadlines, and a wall-sized draft installation schedule turn the semi-annual gathering into a working meeting.

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Long-Term Multi-Grid Trial at SNS Validates Detector’s Use for CSPEC and T-REX

Seven years of R&D have produced the first Boron film-based large-area detector prototype validated for use by ESS instruments.

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V20 Test Beamline at HZB Collaboration Space (login required)

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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.

Contact:

Robin Woracek

Instrument Scientist for test beamlines and engineering

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Updates:

January 2018: Test Beam Linked to ESS Readout Electronics
May 2015: First European Spallation Source Pulse Signature Measured at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

First European Spallation Source Pulse Signature Measured at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

The ESS test beamline will provide real-world conditions for ESS and its partners to test engineering and scientific concepts in the development of instruments and their associated neutron technologies.

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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 Collaboration Space (login required)

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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.

Contact:

Hanno Perrey

In-Kind Collaborator

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The Intensity Frontier: Developing World Class Detectors Using Boron

EU support through the BrightnESS project is delivering critical results for the development of boron-based detectors at ESS.

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Beamline Tests Show Progress in Multi-Blade Development

Through the European-Union funded BrightnESS project, scientists at ESS and its partner institutions aim to realise detectors that can capture and record the high neutron rates delivered by the world’s most powerful neutron source.

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Detectors Research & Development

Innovations in detector technology will be critical to the scientific success of ESS.

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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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ESS Detector Coatings Workshop Collaboration Space (login required)

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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.

Contact:

Linda Robinson

Section Leader, Neutronic Detector Coatings Section

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Detector Coatings Research Leads to ESS Production Facility in Linköping

The little building with the forgettable name has the attention of neutron science facilities across Europe.

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Inauguration of the ESS Detector Coatings Workshop

ESS inaugurated its new coating production unit on November 7 in the presence of scientists, representatives of Linköping University, ESS, and the City of Linköping.

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The Intensity Frontier: Developing World Class Detectors Using Boron

EU support through the BrightnESS project is delivering critical results for the development of boron-based detectors at ESS.

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EMBLA Joint Mechanical Workshop Collaboration Space (login required)

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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. 

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The Intensity Frontier: Developing World Class Detectors Using Boron

EU support through the BrightnESS project is delivering critical results for the development of boron-based detectors at ESS.

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Detectors Research & Development

Innovations in detector technology will be critical to the scientific success of ESS.

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Chopper Systems

The mission of the Neutron Chopper Group is to enable the successful and timely delivery of the ESS instrument suite.

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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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R2D2 at IFE Collaboration Space (login required)

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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.

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The Intensity Frontier: Developing World Class Detectors Using Boron

EU support through the BrightnESS project is delivering critical results for the development of boron-based detectors at ESS.

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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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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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BIFROST

Extreme Environment Spectrometer

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ICS Electronic Integration Area Collaboration Space (login required)

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The Detector Group has established an electronics lab for long-term readout development work at ESS headquarters in Lund.

 

Contact:

Scott Kolya

Research Engineer in Detector Electronic

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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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