The ESS is presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, and is scheduled to start operating as a multi-disciplinary international laboratory mid-2025. It will eventually be the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source. The facility will provide a first neutron source, located above the spallation target, designed for high cold and thermal brightness and a second neutron source below the spallation target to provide higher intensities, and a shift to longer wavelengths neutrons in the spectral regions of Cold, Very Cold, and Ultra Cold neutrons.
This workshop will bring together the experimental fundamental neutron science community and specialists in all areas of the ESS facility. Brief overviews of the status of current suite of experiments will be given together with the anticipated timelines for reaching the experimental goals. In-depth theory reviews of the physics opportunities at new cold and ultra-cold neutron sources will be given, to be followed by presentations of proposals for new experiments at the ESS. Presentations from ESS staff scientists will give detailed technical descriptions on the opportunities and the layout of the ESS experimental facilities and there will be plenty of opportunity to interact with ESS staff on the details of realizing the proposed experiments.
We invite you to submit a detailed proposal for experiments at the ESS to be presented during the workshop with an emphasis on the scientific impact of the measurement(s) and how it would be integrated into the ESS. The goal of the workshop is to write a report, signed by all workshop participated, that discusses the unique science opportunities of the various proposals being put forward by the community for experiments at the ESS. The audience for the report will be ESS management and their advisory bodies and advisory bodies of other neutron facilities world-wide that host fundamental nuclear and particle physics experiments
