2.2 Status of the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)

摘要

IPNS operates its user program 25 weeks/year and has a call for proposals every 6 months for 11 instruments. A significantly upgraded euasielastic neutron spectrometer (QENS) was commissioned in 2000. An enhancement plan that would approximately double the scientific throughput of IPNS was recently reviewed and highly recommended to an adisory committee of the Department of Energy, the funding office for IPNS. IPNS has lead responsibility for neutron scattering scattering instruments for the Spallation neutron Source (SNS) being publt at Oka Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). We also have the lead role in developing a proposal for a long wavelenth target station (LWTS) for the SNS, including instruments, to be submitted in January 2001 to the National Science Foundation.