Session A4 - Opportunities for Condensed Matter Research at National User Facilities.
INVITED session, Monday morning, March 22
517C, Palais des Congres
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source currently under construction at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Scheduled for completion 2006, the facility will provide the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific and industrial research and development. Fifteen of the available 24 beam line locations have been assigned through a review process to neutron scattering instruments for condensed matter research and a sixteenth has been assigned for fundamental physics studies. The majority of these instruments are already funded, with two actively seeking support. The instrument designs have incorporated advances in neutron beam optics and other areas so that the nearly order of magnitude increase in source flux will typically be multiplied by factors of 2 to 10 in comparing instrument performance to currently available best-in-class instruments. These instruments will span a wide range of the neutron scattering techniques commonly used today while the enhanced performance will greatly extend the usefulness of neutron scattering to the study of condensed matter.