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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 83, 2015
QENS/WINS 2014 - 11th International Conference on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and 6th International Workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometers
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Article Number | 03002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | WINS 2014 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158303002 | |
Published online | 23 January 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158303002
A design study of VOR: A versatile optimal resolution chopper spectrometer for the ESS
1 European Spallation Source ESS AB, Box 176, 22100 Lund, Sweden
2 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Technical University of Denmark, Department of Physics, Fysikvej, Lyngby, Denmark
4 Mid-Sweden University, 85170 Sundsvall, Sweden
a pascale.deen@esss.se
b anette@vickery.dk
c ken.andersen@esss.se
d richard.hall-wilton@esss.se
Published online: 23 January 2015
VOR, the versatile optimal resolution chopper spectrometer, is designed to probe dynamic phenomena that are currently inaccessible for inelastic neutron scattering due to flux limitations. VOR is a short instrument by the standards of the European Spallation Source (ESS), 30.2 m moderator to sample, and provides instantaneous access to a broad dynamic range, 1–120 meV within each ESS period. The short instrument length combined with the long ESS pulse width enables a quadratic flux increase, even at longer wavelengths, by relaxing energy resolution from ΔE/E = 1% up to ΔE/E = 7%. This is impossible both on a long chopper spectrometer at the ESS and with instruments at short pulsed sources. In comparison to current day chopper spectrometers, VOR can offer an order of magnitude improvement in flux for equivalent energy resolutions, ΔE/E = 1–3%. Further relaxing the energy resolution enables VOR to gain an extra order of magnitude in flux. In addition, VOR has been optimised for repetition rate multiplication (RRM) and is therefore able to measure, in a single ESS period, 6–14 incident wavelengths, across a wavelength band of 9 Å with a novel chopper configuration that transmits all incident wavelengths with equivalent counting statistics. The characteristics of VOR make it a unique instrument with capabilities to access small, limited-lifetime samples and transient phenomena with inelastic neutron scattering.
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