Speaker
Thomas Hardek
(ORNL)
Description
The SNS has been delivering production neutrons for four years. First beam was delivered to the neutron target at the end of April 2006. On September 18, 2009 SNS officially reached 1 megawatt of beam on target marking the achievement of a decades-old dream of delivering a mega-watt class pulsed spallation source in the U.S. The present effort is aimed at routinely delivering 1 megawatt of beam and gradually increasing the intensity to the 1.4 megawatt design level. This presentation provides a review of the SNS design, an overview of the performance and weaknesses of the various systems and a detailed review of the performance of the RF systems.
Primary author
Thomas Hardek
(ORNL)
Co-authors
Alexandre Vassioutchenko
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
Mark Crofford
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
Mark Middendorf
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
Maurice Piller
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
Sung-Woo Lee
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
Yoon Kang
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN)
