[Neutron] ESS Scandinavia Newsletter May 2009

[Johan Långberg]

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>  MAY 2009
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>  The newsletter of ESS Scandinavia
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> 	Avprenumerara	A WORLD-LEADING CENTRE FOR MATERIALS RESARCH
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> 							The European Spallation Source will be a multi-disciplinary  
> research centre, the global leader in its field. ESS will open new  
> windows in a large array of scientific disciplines. The ambition of  
> ESS Scandinavia is that the ESS be built in Lund, Sweden - at a  
> crossroads for 10 European countries.
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> SCANDINAVIA LEADING THE WAY FORWARD
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> The ESS Scandinavia teams have just returned home, excited and  
> satisfied from very successful participation at both the  
> International Neutron Conference in Tennessee and the Particle  
> Accelerator Conference in Vancouver a week ago.
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> The ESSS stand in the ICNS exhibition hall was really the place to  
> be, and the word soon spread amongst the many delegates of the  
> attractions to be found there - shiny red apples and water (it was  
> in short supply elsewhere despite the "moist" weather !) in addition  
> to our informative and colourful exhibits. Our oasis was quite a  
> talking point, I can assure you!
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> The evident enthusiasm at the ESSS stand was mirrored by the  
> research contributions in the conference rooms. There were around 30  
> scientific presentations from Scandinavian delegates, including  
> three invited talks, a clear demonstration of the real strength of  
> our community ...and this from a population of only 19 million  
> people. We will allow the other site contenders to give their  
> comparative figures! "Discretion is the better part of valour."
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> On the first evening of ICNS, 24 of the (youthful!) Scandinavian  
> conference delegates, decked out in their highly visible (but  
> subtle!) white shirts, dined together by the banks of the Tennessee  
> river. Neither torrential rain, nor swine flu could diminish the  
> attendance either at the dinner or at the conference. Our hand  
> crafted ESSS ICNS shirt was very much in demand, but they were an  
> exclusive piece of apparel, and we resisted even the most inviting  
> offers to hand one over. Some people have no shame... they are a  
> collectors' item!
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> At the really lively Particle Accelerator Conference in lovely  
> Vancouver, held during the same week as ICNS, ESS Scandinavia was  
> also very much present, not only in chairing sessions and presenting  
> work but, just as at Knoxville, our exhibition here, though more  
> modest, provided a focus and a privileged space amongst the madding  
> crowd for many rewarding discussions with manufacturers and with  
> world-leading laboratories, preparing for future collaborations on  
> ESS (in Lund... where
> else could it be ?)
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> You could sense the buzz around the conference venue that ESS will  
> be the next big accelerator project in the world and many young and  
> not-as-young-as-they-used-to-be top scientists, want to be part of  
> it. The time is ripe for ESS and we await (and indeed expect) a  
> courageous decision on Thursday 28th May in Brussels.
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> Colin Carlile
> Director, ESS Scandinavia
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> Photos: Above - The very popular ESS Scandinavia display at ICNS.
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> Below - Andrew Taylor, ISIS Director, receives the fruit of  
> knowledge from ESS Scandinavia's Exhibition Manager Therése Welander.
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> After the Prague Round-Table: a swift ESS decision possible!	
> ESS Scandinavia's fourth Round-Table was held in Prague in the Czech  
> Republic, co-chaired by Denmark and Sweden as ESS co-hosts. The  
> conference was dominated by good news: a strengthening of the  
> Scandinavian financial offer, support from Norway and a clear way  
> forward in the decision-making process. All in all, nothing stands  
> in the way of a swift site decision.
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> Read more about the Prague Round-Table
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> 		Funding plan for MAX IV synchrotron ready
> MAX-IV will be a truly leading facility for studies of particles at  
> a nano level by using synchrotron light, and it is planned to be  
> built on the same site as the ESS. In April, the funding plan was  
> agreed, which means that the construction of MAX IV will start in  
> early 2010. Warm gratulations to our sister facility!
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> More about the MAXIV plans
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> OPTIMISING ACCELERATOR R&D WITH THE FUTURE USERS
> ESS Scandinavia proposes a new reference design upon which to base  
> its bid, presenting several significant innovations. In addition,  
> the ESS Scandinavia Technical Team is working on the optimization of  
> the proton accelerator and target design, with the goal of  
> maximizing the scientific output and capability of the ESS.
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> A strong international team for accelerator R&D
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> The ESS Scandinavia accelerator team has grown with seven new  
> members recruited in the last few months. Two of the new employees  
> will initially start at CERN with the Superconducting Proton Linac  
> (SPL) team and two will start at CEA-Saclay with the ion soure and  
> linac teams.
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> The accelerator R&D is guided by two working groups:
> - An International Reference Group consisting of linear accelerator  
> specialists who contribute to the ESS Scandinavia design work, but  
> who do not belong to an institute or university in either Sweden or  
> Denmark.
> - A Regional Coordination Group consisting of accelerator physicists  
> from the two host countries.
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> Initially the two groups are working on a new design proposal for  
> the ESS accelerator but will eventually form the basis of an  
> accelerator collaboration for the design, development, construction,  
> installation and commissioning of the accelerator.
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> Advantages of collaboration with partners and users
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> The collaboration model has the advantage of immediately involving  
> partners from accelerator institutes and universities, so that the  
> development work can be performed using the best available  
> individuals and equipment for a given task. It is a bottom-up  
> approach that assures success by sharing rewarding design and  
> development work that can later be translated into industrial  
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> Contacts with industry will be established during the development  
> phase, for the most part local to the collaboration partners. A  
> strong Coordination Team in Lund will take the intellectual  
> ownership of the design, in order to assure good project cost  
> control, and to be responsible for project integration.
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> The collaboration model is well suited to international projects,  
> opening up the possibility for all partners to participate and learn  
> during the development phase. Additional potential returns include  
> training opportunities for partners and industry, new know-how,  
> intellectual property rights for other projects and technology  
> transfer to industry.
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> New proposals for ESS accelerator design
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> After thorough discussions with the future ESS users and the target  
> station team, ESS Scandinavia can propose novel ideas for the ESS  
> linear accelerator compared to the 2003 ESS baseline. We propose to  
> increase the accelerator energy to 2.5 GeV, slightly increase the  
> repetition rate to 20 Hz but with maintained pulse length at 2 ms.
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> This will allow us to lower the average current in the pulse to 60  
> mA which will reduce space charge in the low energy part of the  
> accelerator and permit an average acceleration gradient at some 15  
> MV/m for power couplers of 1 MW/cavity. The accelerator length will  
> not change significantly in spite of the higher energy, thanks to  
> the higher average gradient.
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> Furthermore, superconducting (SC) spoke cavities are proposed to be  
> used from 50 MeV/u to 200 MeV/u because they are much less sensitive  
> to mechanical perturbations than elliptical cavities, and because  
> they provide large transit time factors in the corresponding Lorenz  
> ß range. The advantage of using superconducting cavities in the low  
> energy part is that each cavity can be independently phased at  
> relatively low energies, responding to the SNS experience that this  
> is very effective for longitudinal acceptance tuning.
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> Prof. Mats Lindroos and Dr Steve Peggs
> ESS Scandinavia Accelerator Team
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> Photo: SNS linear acelerator.
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> Read more on the ESS Scandinavia web site and in the Activity Report
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> STRONG SCANDINAVIAN PRESENCE AT ICNS AND PAC
> Two years ago neutron scientists from all over the world gathered in  
> charming Lund for ECNS, and took part in the plans to build ESS  
> there. This year, the four yearly International Neutron Scattering  
> Conference took place in Knoxville Tennessee, where the SNS has been  
> built.
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> In the 3-7 May conference, the ESS Scandinavia delegation was highly  
> visible. The Scandinavian scientists gave three invited talks and  
> eight oral contributions, not counting many posters. In total,  
> around 30 contributions were presented from Scandinavia, reflecting  
> the Scandinavian expertise and experience in the field of neutron  
> research. Moreover, a parallel one-day workshop on neutron  
> instrument simulation was organised by McStas experts from  
> Copenhagen University and ILL, where neutron scientists could get  
> training in instrument modelling.
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> ESS Scandinavia also had an exhibition stand presenting the  
> Scandinavian candidacy. There was a huge interest for the  
> Scandinavian ESS bid. Many scientists from all over the world  
> visited the stand in order to find out more about the Scandinavian  
> proposal, the technical specifications, the decision process and  
> what it is like to live and work in the Öresund Region.
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> This was the 9th ICNS, and it was held under the auspices of the  
> Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA). The aim of the  
> conference was to show the breadth of recent scientific results  
> achieved through the use of neutron techniques as well as exciting  
> developments in neutron related instrumentation from software to new  
> source development.
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> Read more about ICNS in Colin Carlile's blog
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> Different aspects of techniques and applications of neutron  
> scattering were discussed, including topical areas such as soft  
> condensed matter, biological sciences, instrument concepts and  
> facility development.
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> In parallell with the ICNS, the International Particle Accelerator  
> Conference, PAC2009, took place in Vancouver, Canada. PAC is a well- 
> established conference series of particular significance to  
> accelerator scientists, engineers, Students and industrial vendors  
> interested in all aspects of particle accelerator technology. The  
> conference, held between the 4th and 9th of May, was well attended  
> with over 1300 participants, 74 industrial exhibits, 147 students,  
> 197 orals talks, 1625 posters and 23 satellite meetings.
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> As in the ICNS conference, ESS Scandinavia was also highly visible  
> in Vancouver. The Scandinavian team had a popular stand at the  
> industrial exhibition. The display received much attention from both  
> participants and industries demonstrating that the scientific  
> community is preparing itself for an imminent site decision.
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> We also presented the new ESS Scandinavia conceptual accelerator  
> design in the poster session. The proposal triggered many  
> interesting and encouraging discussions with colleagues from  
> accelerator laboratories and universities in Europe and elsewhere,  
> which gave confidence in the proposed design parameters. The ESS  
> Scandinavia accelerator design is clearly considered possible and  
> mature for a site decision followed by a design review.
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> Photos: Colin Carlile talking to scientists from Risoe at ICNS. The  
> Scandinavian delegation raise a cheer after a team dinner at  
> Knoxville.
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> Read more about ESS Scandinavia's R&D work in our neutron science blog
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> 	ESS Scandinavia in the News
> "That contrasts with the situation in Sweden, which has employed two  
> leading neutron scientists from Institut Laue-Langevin in France to  
> run its bid (...). The young scientists and engineers that make up  
> Spain's R&D team cannot convincingly compete with that kind of  
> scientific firepower.
> Sweden can clearly be regarded as a safe pair of hands, that can be  
> relied on to build and operate the facility efficiently."
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> Research Europe, editorial, 30 April 2009.
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> THE E6 SCIENCE CORRIDOR - STRENGTHENING EUROPEAN R&D
> The transnational corridor stretching from Hamburg to Oslo has two  
> major aces up its sleeve: four planned, complementary large research  
> facilities and unique competence within materials resarch. What  
> would be more natural than increasing scientific cooperation in  
> these fields?
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> In fact, the unique conditions for materials research in the Öresund  
> region have led to the establishment of two new important R&D  
> networks. The Science Corridor is one of them.
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> This newly launched network gathers universities and research  
> institutes from four countries around some of the world’s most  
> prominent research facilities. That is, in short, what the Science  
> Corridor is all about.
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> ESS, MAX-IV, XFEL and PETRA III – the Northern Lights
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> - This region, southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, is already  
> successful within materials research, says Bengt Streijffert,  
> project leader for The Science Corridor. With the planned large- 
> scale research facilities – XFEL and PETRA III in Hamburg, and MAXIV  
> and hopefully ESS in Lund/Copenhagen – there will be an extremely  
> powerful concentration of materials research in the Öresund Region.
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> The aim of The Science Corridor, Streijffert explains, is to bind  
> this region together by means of materials research and existing and  
> planned large-scale research facilities; a region that despite its  
> limited geographical extent, stretches over four countries.
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> Synergies in research cooperation
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> - There can be big gains from synergy effects thanks to a denser  
> research collaboration within The Science Corridor, Streijffert  
> concludes. The increased cooperation makes it easier for scientists  
> and industries that need access to more than one of the facilities.
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> - Universities and research facilities will have the opportunity to  
> tailor joint high-level education programmes and to participate in  
> different kinds of exchange programmes. Together, the universities  
> will provide an even more attractive environment for the best  
> international scientists.
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> The realisation of the Science Corridor will also be an important  
> demonstration of European cooperation, Bengt Streijffert adds:
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> - We see this as a step towards the fifth freedom within the  
> European Union, the free movement for knowledge. I hope that The  
> Science Corridor will be a model for European cooperation.
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> A strong innovation environment
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> Year after year, Sweden is ranked number one on the European  
> Innovation Scoreboard. This strong innovation culture will also be  
> beneficial for the ESS, maximising the possibilities of turning  
> scientific discoveries into useful innovations that will benefit the  
> whole of Europe.
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> The seven science parks and incubators in the Öresund region are by  
> themselves very successful. Now, they are establishing a strategic  
> collaboration in order to further improve the region’s  
> attractiveness for innovative companies, especially within materials  
> research. The cooperation is initially called Öresund Science Parks.
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> Öresund Science Parks
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> - ESS will generate world leading materials research. With Öresund  
> Science Parks, we create an environment with the best conditions for  
> commercialisation of scientific discoveries, says Lars Montelius,  
> Director of the Öresund University and the Öresund Science Region.
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> The concrete benefits from cooperation between science parks and  
> incubators in the region are the possibilities to broaden the range  
> of services available for member companies, such as advice and  
> education. Access to the seven different science parks also  
> increases the possibilities for individual companies to find the  
> right affiliate.
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> Another important benefit from the cooperation is increased  
> international visibility. Science parks like IDEON – already  
> established as a neighbour to MAX IV and ESS has an international  
> reputation, but when these seven science parks and incubators act  
> together, they will generate an even brighter lustre, Montelius  
> concludes.
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> Companies within the science parks will benefit from operating in an  
> internationally acknowledged environment, and for the science parks  
> and the region, increased visibility will lead to more companies  
> being attracted to the region. This will create a strong identity  
> for the Öresund region.
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> - With the concentration of science within materials research and e- 
> science already existing in the Öresund region, we have attained a  
> critical mass where talent attracts talent. It was like that Silicon  
> Valley when was founded, Montelius smiles.
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> Professor Dirk Dubbers, Heidelberg, discussing neutrons and  
> gravitational effects.
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> The theme of Professor Joe Zaccai's seminar concerned the remarkable  
> adaptability of living organisms to thrive under very varied  
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> INSPIRING SEMINARS FOR ASPIRING SCIENTISTS
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> Over the past decade, the use of neutrons for research has been  
> spreading to more and more scientific disciplines. In a seminar  
> series with MAX-lab, ESS Scandinavia has invited internationally  
> renowned scientists to encourage young researchers to discover the  
> possibilities.
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> Advanced science to an increasing extent requires studies on the  
> atomic and molecular level. Neutrons and synchrotron light are two  
> complementary scientific tools, leading to many important  
> discoveries during the last decade.
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> With more powerful neutron sources and more brilliant synchrotron  
> radiation beams, the scientific opportunities are being multiplied,  
> for example within life science and cultural heritage. Therefore,  
> ESS Scandinavia and MAX-lab has organised a seminar series to raise  
> the awareness of the future opportunities in the world-leading  
> research centre that can be built in Lund.
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> Dr. Dimitri Argyriou from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials  
> and Energy started the series on October 30th 2008, when he  
> explained why neutrons and X-rays together reveal unique states in  
> magnetic materials. On 12th February 2009, Prof. Dirk Dubbers from  
> the Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg shed light on  
> neutrons and low-energy particle physics.
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> Biology and biotechnology are scientific disciplines where neutrons  
> and X-rays have opened completely new windows for researchers. Prof.  
> Peter Fratzl from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and  
> Interfaces, Berlin, gave a wide-ranging presentation from bone to  
> wood on March 6th 2009. Prof Joe Zaccäi from ILL, Grenoble, gave a  
> well-attended seminar on December 5th 2008 entitled “Visualising the  
> Structure and Dynamics of Biological Molecules in Cells: the  
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> Power of Electron, X-ray, Neutron, and NMR Probes.”
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> Upcoming are two seminars that will be held before the summer  
> holidays. Prof. Per Persson from Umeå University on 2nd June, and  
> Dean Myles from the Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Oak  
> Ridge National Laboratory on 9th June. The seminars will take place  
> at the Ecology Department and the Chemistry Department at Lund  
> University.
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> Photos above: Dr Dimitri Argyriu explains how a fundamental  
> knowledge of magnetism aids the development of new devices and Dr  
> Peter Fratzl explains how knowledge of bone and cartilage can lead  
> to better medical implants.
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> Find the full lectures here
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> ESS Scandinavia / www.esss.se / info at esss.se
> Director Colin Carlile / +46(0)46-2228302 / colin.carlile at esss.se
> Communications Officer Marianne Ekdahl / +46(0)46-2228389 / e-mail: marianne.ekdahl at esss.se
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