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  • Joined forces of ESS Bilbao, JCNS and LLB for the development of HiCANS

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    With recent developments in the field of HiCANS neutron sources the members of the ELENA association of ESS Bilbao (Spain), JCNS (Germany) and LLB (CEA-CNRS France) plan to join common…

  • DN2024 visits JULIC neutron platform

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    A special offer was used by many participants of the German Neutron Scattering Conference (DN2024) at Aachen last week to visit the JULIC Neutron Platform at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and…

  • KFN Instrumentation Prize for Paul Zakalek

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    With great pleasure Paul Zakalek, Head of HBS project, has received the Instrumentation Prize of the German Committee for Neutron Reserarch (KFN) this year. The prize was presented to Paul…

  • 10th HBS Workshop

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    On Sept. 12.-13, the 10th HBS Workshop took place at the well known venue of the Rheinhotel Schulz in Unkel neur Bonn, Germany. Many colleagues and collaboration partners from science…

  • 8th RIKEN-JCNS Joint Workshop

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    On June 3-4 the 8th RIKEN-JCNS Workshop was organized at JCNS in Jülich with welcomed guests Dr. Yoshie Otake and Dr. Yosuko Okuna of RIKEN RAP. The two day workshop…

  • HBS visits ESS Bilbao

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    Recently the HBS core team of Paul Zakalek, Thomas Gutberlet and JCNS-2 Director Karen Friese visited the colleagues of ESS Bilbao to discuss common activities and projects.ESS Bilbao Director Mario…

  • 7th RIKEN-JCNS Joint Workshop

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    by Paul Zalalek The Japanese RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) and the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) held their seventh joint workshop on compact accelerator-driven neutron sources (CANS)…

  • HBS@UCANS10

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    by Thomas Gutberlet The 10th UCANS conference of the Union of Compact Accelerator based Neutron Sources took place with more as 100 participants on Oct. 16.-19, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary.…

  • Visit of Institute of Nuclear Energy Research of Taiwan at HBS Project

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    by Thomas Gutberlet The Institute of Nuclear Energy Research in Taiwan is developing a cyclotron based compact accelerator based neutron source. The project is in the inital stage and Dr.…

  • HBS Technical Design Report published

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    By Thomas Gutberlet, JCNS The High Brilliance neutron Source (HBS) project is developing a High-Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Source (HiCANS) as next generation neutron source for the benefit of science and…