More than 100 scientists exchanged technical R&D advances on high power targets
Today the 4th international High Power Targetry Workshop has been concluded in Malmö. The workshop has been an occasion for scientists and engineers from major research laboratories world-wide to discuss advanced technical R&D matters of joint interest.
The 4th HPTW, held on 2-6 May, has focused on discussions and exchanges of common R&D matters relevant to high power targets from the design phase to the operation phase for neutrino facilities, spallation sources and Radioactive Ion Beams facilities.
The workshop has brought together more than 100 scientists and engineers from ten countries, in particular scientists from the major laboratories operating or designing particle accelerators with high power targets.
The 4th HPTW has been arranged by the host European Spallation Source (ESS), in collaboration with the Lund University Faculty of Engineering, Risö National Laboratory at the Danish Technical University, and an international team of scientists led by the workshop chairman Dr Harold Kirk, Brookhaven National Laboratory. ESS will be a next-generation source for neutron-based science, building on a 5 MW spallation target.
- The workshop has been a highly valuable opportunity to identify joint R&D efforts and common knowledge-bases within spallation, target and accelerator technology. It has been five intense days with high-quality talks and interesting discussions, says Francois Plewinski, Group Leader for Target Engineering and leader of the local organizing committee.
The workshop sessions have covered operational experiences of high-power target facilities, neutrino targets, spallation neutron targets, radioactive ion beam targets, as well as tools and methodology for simulation, instrumentation and safety matters. It has been held with the objective of presenting the latest developments and projects, encouraging the exchange of information, strengthening collaborations and initiating joint efforts.
- I am particularly glad that the 4th HPTW has been held here. Through participating in this workshop and meeting the ESS team, the high energy physics community has been able to get a first hand image of the progress of the ESS project, one of the most exciting accelerator project currently planned, says Ferenc Mezei, Head of the Target Station Division.
ESS also had the ambition to use the occasion to convey advanced R&D to young students. On Tuesday, masters students from Lund Technical University College working with the ESS project had the opportunity to present their work to an international expert audience.
This High Power Targetry Workshop has been the fourth in a series of international workshops, where the previous have been held in the USA and in Switzerland. The participants represented, among others, CERN in Geneva, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Princeton University, USA, Karlsrühe Institute of Technology and ForschungsZentrum Jülich, Germany, CEA-Saclay, France, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in the UK, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, and RIKEN, Japan.
For more information, please contact:
Colin Carlile, ESS Director-General. E-mail colin.carlile@esss.se, Tel. 46-(0)46-222 83 02
Marianne Ekdahl, Communications Officer Press & Politics. E-mail marianne.ekdahl@esss.se, Tel. 46-(0)46-222 83 89
ESS IN SHORT:
The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for materials research and life science
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary research laboratory based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in for example health, environment, climate, energy, transport sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental research infrastructure project, and it will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. At least 17 European countries will take part in the construction, financing and operation of the ESS. Sweden and Denmark will co-host the ESS and cover 50 percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states.
The European Spallation Source ESS AB is a public limited company, today owned by the Swedish and the Danish states. ESS AB is planning the future international ESS organisation. Building is expected to start around 2013, the first neutrons to be produced in 2019 and the facility to be fully operational around 2025.
ESS will support a user community of 5000 researchers and will have great strategic importance for the development of the European Research Area. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
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