Members of the target design team pose next to the 2.0-megawatt-capable mercury flow target they developed. Credit: Genevieve ...

Oak Ridge Lab's Spallation Neutron Source reached 1.7 MW with a new target for 1,250 hours, ahead of a 2025 review.

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have achieved a big breakthrough in neutron research. They ran a neutron production system for 1,250 hours using a 1.7-megawatt proton beam. This ...

ORNL aims to enhance the capabilities of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) by adding a new target station. The STS project ...

As ISIS – the UK’s muon and neutron source – turns 40, Rosie de Laune and colleagues from ISIS explore the past, present and future of neutron scattering ...

The University of Tennessee's neutron source enhances education by providing hands-on learning opportunities for students and ...

Hesheng Chen, a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, reported to the forum on progress at the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS ...

Scientists have finally proven the existence of "supersolids," a bizarre state of matter that behaves like both a liquid and ...

"For such measurements, a nuclear reactor is often used as the neutron source," explains Benjamin Koch. "Free neutrons are produced during radioactive decay in the reactor. These free neutrons can ...

such as nuclear reactors or spallation sources. The instrumentation consists of a neutron source, a monochromator to select the desired wavelength, a collimator to define the beam geometry, and a ...

"For such measurements, a nuclear reactor is often used as the neutron source," explains Koch. "Free neutrons are produced during radioactive decay in the reactor. These free neutrons can then be ...