Mötesplats Rydberg: Hanno Perrey - The Source Testing Facility -- or: where students and the future ESS instruments "see" their first neutrons

Tuesday 17 Apr 2018, 15:15 → 16:15 Europe/Stockholm

Rydbergsalen (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

The European Spallation Source (ESS) aspires to be the world's brightest source of neutrons. With this ambitious goal also comes the need to develop highly sophisticated instrumentation able to handle record-breaking neutron fluxes. Such novel detector research and development, however, requires access to neutrons -- something clearly lacking in Lund until the construction of ESS is complete. This crucial gap is filled by the Source Testing Facility (STF) located in the basement of Fysicum. Operated by the SONNIG Group of the Division of Nuclear Physics, the STF is a fully functioning user facility. It boasts a complete range of gamma-ray and neutron sources for characterizations of detectors and is equipped with the infrastructure essential to a hands-on user-focused laboratory. As there are no reactors or accelerators involved, the STF is an ideal, round-the-clock available locale for prototype development and commissioning, and open to interested users. As such, the STF and SONNIG group play a vital role in the research towards future ESS instrumentation. But the STF also provides an unique space and opportunity for teaching: in the laboratories offered here, students experiment with fundamental properties of the neutron using state-of-the-art research equipment all while working side-by-side with our colleagues from ESS or our international collaborators. In this seminar, the Source Testing Facility is presented together with our group's plans and visions for its future role in neutron-related education at both LU and LTH.