SANS instrumental design considerations at CANS facilities

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Abstract

Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) is a ubiquitous technique at neutron scattering facilities throughout the world, and they are particularly attractive instruments to consider for a CANS facility as they are relatively simple in design, do not require high resolution, and can facilitate research across a wide swath of science. On the other hand, CANS facilities employ a fundamentally different primary neutron source than earlier generations of neutron facilities, and such CANS facilities must often be built within a different set of constraints than is typically seen at a major reactor or spallation source. We discuss briefly how these considerations may lead to minor variations in the design optimization for a SANS instrument at a CANS facility from the typical descriptions available from other facilities using the design of the instrument at LENS as an example.

Original languageEnglish
Article number02001
JournalEPJ Web of Conferences
Volume298
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 27 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Meeting of Union for Compact Accelerator-Driven Neutron Sources, UCANS 2024 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: Oct 16 2023Oct 19 2023

Funding

LENS was constructed with partial support from the NSF under grants DMR-0220560 and DMR-0320627, and much of this work was supported by the Department of Commerce through cooperative agreement number 70NANB15H259.

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