Los Alamos neutron source meets first test

Journal Article · Fri Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 1985 · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4706.1417· OSTI ID:5429454

Robinson, A L

26 April was a day for celebrating at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as jubilant researchers stored a beam in the Proton Storage Ring (PSR) on the very first attempt. The PSR is a $22-million addition to the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) facility whose effect will be to convert the WNR into a world-class pulsed source for neutron scattering on a par with the British Spallation Neutron Source that recently entered the commissioning phase at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (l). The combined WNR/PSR facility will be dedicated this August as the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE). However, two important provisos to be satisfied before researchers can tap the intense neutron beam the WNR/PSR will provide are the construction of an experimental hall sufficiently large to house research instrumentation and the development of the instrumentation itself. Now set at $17.5 million, funding for this purpose has never made it into the presidential budget.

• OSTI ID: 5429454
• Journal Information: Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 228
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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