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Looking ahead: SNS users visit to discuss next-generation target station at ORNL

Posted at 1:43 pm December 6, 2015
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leave a Comment

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More than 200 scientists from around the world met from October 27 to 29 at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide input on the scientific instruments that would be installed at a proposed Second Target Station, or STS, at the Spallation Neutron Source, which is pictured above. (Aerial photo and overlay by ORNL)

 

More than 200 scientists from around the world met from October 27 to 29 at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to provide input on the scientific instruments that would be installed at a proposed Second Target Station, or STS, at the Spallation Neutron Source.

The workshop—which was organized by ORNL’s Neutron Sciences Directorate and drew researchers from 56 universities, research institutions, and other national laboratories—aimed to define the capabilities needed to ensure the next-generation neutron source meets the biggest science challenges.

The Spallation Neutron Source is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Alan Tennant, Boris Khaykovich, Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, HFIR, High Flux Isotope Reactor, John Tranquada, Ken Herwig, long wave neutrons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, neutron scattering, Neutron Sciences, Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Second Target Station, SNS, Spallation Neutron Source, STS, U.S. Department of Energy

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