Looking ahead: SNS users visit to discuss next generation target station

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

Looking ahead: SNS users visit to discuss next generation target station

October 27, 2015

Media Contact

Katie Bethea, Communications
betheakl@ornl.gov, 865.576.8039

This week's Second Target Station Workshop at the Spallation Neutron Source will update the user community on the planning for the Second Target Station, to engage the users in the process of moving the STS forward, and to seek the community's input on all aspects of the project. 

The STS workshop (Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 27-29 ) follows the SNS/HFIR User Meeting (Oct. 26-27). The STS forum will focus on

• Discussion and development of the scientific case for the STS. 
• Formation of steering committees organized by instrument class to represent their respective science communities. 
• Discussion and prioritization of the proposed instrument concepts and a decision of an initial suite of roughly eight to ten instruments. 
• Identification of the necessary performance parameters for the initial suite of instruments and how to achieve these "must reach" specifications. 

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Morten Eskildsen (eskildsen@nd.edu),University of Notre Dame
Boris Khaykovich (bkh@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Workshop ORNL Contact:
Ken Herwig (herwigkw@ornl.gov), Oak Ridge National Laboratory