Overview of the Conceptual Design of the Future VENUS Neutron Imaging Beam Line at the Spallation Neutron Source

Hassina Bilheux; Ken Herwig; Scott Keener; Larry Davis

doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2015.07.007

Overview of the Conceptual Design of the Future VENUS Neutron Imaging Beam Line at the Spallation Neutron Source

Hassina Bilheux, Ken Herwig, Scott Keener, Larry Davis

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Abstract

VENUS (Versatile Neutron Imaging Beam line at the Spallation Neutron Source) will be a world-class neutron-imaging instrument that will uniquely utilize the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) time-of-flight (TOF) capabilities to measure and characterize objects across several length scales (mm to μm). When completed, VENUS will provide academia, industry and government laboratories with the opportunity to advance scientific research in areas such as energy, materials, additive manufacturing, geosciences, transportation, engineering, plant physiology, biology, etc. It is anticipated that a good portion of the VENUS user community will have a strong engineering/industrial research focus. Installed at Beam line 10 (BL10), VENUS will be a 25-m neutron imaging facility with the capability to fully illuminate (i.e., umbra illumination) a 20 cm x 20 cm detector area. The design allows for a 28 cm x 28 cm field of view when using the penumbra to 80% of the full illumination flux. A sample position at 20 m will be implemented for magnification measurements. The optical components are comprised of a series of selected apertures, T0 and bandwidth choppers, beam scrapers, a fast shutter to limit sample activation, and flight tubes filled with Helium. Techniques such as energy selective, Bragg edge and epithermal imaging will be available at VENUS.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-59
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physics Procedia
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.07.007
State	Published - 2015
Event	Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Neutron Radiography, WCNR-10 2014 - Grindelwald, Switzerland Duration: Oct 5 2014 → Oct 10 2014

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Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

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Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Scientific User Facilities Division
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Keywords

Spallation Neutron Source
instrument conceptual design
time-of-flight neutron radiography

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