Development of neutron reflectometry for a HiCANS: the HERMES instrument at the JULIC Neutron Platform
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Abstract
HERMES is a time-of-flight reflectometer that operated at the Orphée reactor until 2019. In 2022, HERMES was installed at the JULIC (Jülich Light Ion Cyclotron) Neutron Platform as part of a collaboration between the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin and the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science. The main goal of the current setup is to probe the viability of neutron instrumentation at a High Current Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (HiCANS). As the flux at the JULIC neutron platform is several orders of magnitude lower than the original Orphée flux or the expected flux for a HiCANS, our current objective is to perform reflectivity experiments with supermirrors as a proof of concept. Nevertheless, Monte-Carlo simulations showed that the HERMES instrument’s performance at a HiCANS such as HBS or ICONE could match that of reflectometry instruments operating at research reactors or spallation sources. An experiment with a supermirror carried out in December 2022 allowed us to preliminary prove the feasibility of this kind of experiments at an accelerator-driven neutron source.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
| Externally published | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 10th International Meeting of the Union for Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources |
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| Abbreviated title | UCANS-10 |
| Conference number | 10 |
| Duration | 16 - 19 October 2023 |
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| Location | Mercure Budapest Castle Hill congress hotel |
| City | Budapest |
| Country | Hungary |
External IDs
| Mendeley | 14ff768f-df20-32a9-80bd-9c91439cc6d1 |
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