Organisation:
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
Installation:
ISIS Facility
Type:
spallation source (800 MeV, 0.2 mA, 50 Hz)
Address:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
Home
page:
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/
Contact:
Tim Broome
Phone
/ fax:
+44 1235 44 6255, fax: +44 1235 44 5607
e-mail:
t.a.broome@rl.ac.uk
CNS:
two (hydrogen and methane), since 1985
Moderator:
H2 / CH4
volume:
0.5/0.8 litre
temperature:
22 / 100 K
phase: liquid
pressure:
1 / 0.4 MPa
power:
300 W each
refrigerator
Sulzer / Philips
cycle:
Brayton / Stirling
heat
removal: forced
convection (circulator)
performance: the
hydrogen source works with a 25 Hz beam.
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remarks:
Second Target Station design and construction is in progress,
incorporating two cold moderators.
recent
publications: ECNS'99
in Budapest: EPL3 (A.D. Taylor),
Proc.
AcoM-V Workshop at HMI (March 2001) published in J. of Neutron Research
ICNS 2001
(Munich): proceedings in Appl. Phys. A (Suppl.1), 2002 (T.A. Broome)
ICANSXVIII:
"Re-design of the
ISIS first target station for improved neutronics" by S. Ansell - Id111, 2007
ICANSXVIII: "Second coupled moderator for the ISIS second target station" by S. Ansell - Id110, 2007
New design with composite moderator substance (H2/CH4).