23–27 Sept 2019
Downtown Holiday Inn
US/Eastern timezone

Tour Our Facilities

Tour the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

Please make sure to choose the option to attend the tour when registering for the conference. Access to the laboratory is required and advanced notice is needed for badging purposes. 

SNS

Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

SNS is a one-of-a-kind research facility that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target/moderator system, where neutrons are produced by a process called spallation. State-of-the-art experiment stations provide a variety of capabilities for researchers across a broad range of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology.

With its more intense, brighter source of neutrons and world-class instrumentation, SNS provides the neutron scattering community with unprecedented research opportunities. SNS allows for measurements of greater sensitivity, higher speed, higher resolution, and in more complex sample environments than have been possible at existing neutron facilities.

SNS is available to researchers from all over the world with varying degrees of experience. Submitted research proposals are reviewed by independent scientists from within the neutron scattering community, and the most promising ones are chosen.  

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