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Effects of ground movements on realistic guide models for the European Spallation Source

Asla Husgard1, Martin A. Olsen1, Rebekka Frøystad1, Jonas P. Hyatt1, Mads Bertelsen2, Rasmus Toft-Petersen3,4, and Kim Lefmann1,*

  • 1Nanoscience Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen
  • 2Data Management and Software Centre, European Spallation Source ERIC, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 3Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  • 4European Spallation Source ESS ERIC, P.O. Box 176, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

  • *lefmann@nbi.ku.dk
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Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 103501 – Published 8 October, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.103501

Abstract

We model the effect of ground movement, based on empirical experience, on the transport properties of long neutron guides by ray-tracing simulations. For a simple model, our results reproduce the large losses found by an earlier study, while for a more realistic engineering model of guide mounting, we find the losses to be significantly smaller. A detailed study of the guide for the cold neutron spectrometer BIFROST at the European Spallation Source shows that a realistic loss value is 7.0(5)% for wavelengths of 2.3–4.0 Å, the typical operational wavelength range of the instrument. This amount of loss does not call for mitigation by overillumination as suggested in the previous work. Our work serves to quantify the robustness of the transport properties of long neutron guides, in construction or planning at neutron facilities worldwide.

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Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 103501– Published 8 October, 2020
  • Received 27 May 2020
  • Accepted 14 September 2020
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