• Conceptual and technical design

    The Jülich High Brilliance accelerator-based neutron Source (HBS) presents a novel concept for a compact accelerator driven neutron source closing the gap between laboratory oriented small-scale neutron sources as neutron…

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  • “9th High Brilliance Neutron Source” Workshop

    The 9th international workshop on High Brilliance Neutron Sources based on a low energy accelerator system was held again as a face-to-face conference from September 14-15, 2023, organized by the…

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  • HBS @ECNS 2023

    With 539 participants from all over the world, the European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS) successfully took place at MLZ in Garching! The HBS project was presented not only on…

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  • First neutrons from next generation source in Jülich

    12 December 2022 Accelerator-driven, low-energy compact neutron sources are considered the next generation of neutron source for a wide range of applications. On 12 December 2022, researchers from the Jülich…

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  • IMoH2022 Poster Prize for Qi Ding

    01 July 2022 JCNS physicist Qi Ding has been awarded one of two poster prizes at the “1st International Meeting on Opportunities and Challenges for Hicans – ImoH2022”. “HiCANS” stands…

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  • 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…

  • Successful electron beam testing of HBS target

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    by Johannes Baggemann Within the HBS project an innovative target concept has been developed to fulfill the special requirements of HBS, namely high brilliance and high proton current at moderate…

  • 9th HBS Workshop

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    The 9th international workshop on High Brilliance Neutron Sources based on a low energy accelerator system was held again as a face-to-face conference from September 14-15, 2023, organized by the…

  • HBS@ECNS 2023

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    With 539 participants from all over the world, the European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS) successfully took place at MLZ in Garching! The HBS project was presented not only on…

  • FIRST NEUTRONS FROM NEXT GENERATION SOURCE IN JÜLICH

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    Accelerator-driven, low-energy compact neutron sources are considered the next generation of neutron source for a wide range of applications. On 12 December 2022, researchers from the Jülich Centre for Neutron…