Work Package 3
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION WITH NEUTRONS
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION WITH NEUTRONS
Theory and simulations alone are not enough to accurately predict neutron behaviour through moderator and reflector materials. Experimental data must guide them, and benchmark their results. The Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, is one of the world’s leading neutron sources, with a 58 megawatt, high-flux reactor that is very capable of testing how neutrons interact with different materials. how different materials respond to neutron interactions.
This work package will see the ILL perform such testing for HighNESS, by precisely measuring energy transfers between neutrons and materials at the very low (cryogenic) temperatures in which they will operate as neutron moderators.
By precisely timing how long cold neutrons are in transit through the materials at the very low (cryogenic) temperatures in which they will operate. This involves:
Drawing input from eight European research institutions, and with a budget of €3m over three years from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the project will produce a groundbreaking design for a second source of ESS neutrons. As a result, it will show how the ESS can be not only the most brilliant neutron source in the world, but also the most intense, able to probe everyday materials and tackle fundamental questions in physics with up to 1,000 times the sensitivity found anywhere else.