Programme

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Timetable

28-Sep

29-Sep

30-Sep

1-Oct

2-Oct

3-Oct

AM-1

4-1 Integrated Interface

* 2-3 Facility Session

1 Blue Sky Session

3-2 TM

8-1 SE

10-1 DAA

7-1 D

WS Conclusion

AM-2

2-1 Facility Session

3-3 TM

5-1 ABT

6-2 NI

11-1 NMC

3-2 TM

8-2 SE

10-2 DAA

7-2 D

Closing Session

Lunch

PM-1

2-2 Facility Session

Poster I

Excursion

Poster II

J-PARC Tour

PM-2

3-1 TM

6-1 NI

12 SO

5-2 ABT

6-3 NI

9 S

6-4 NI

7-3 D

11-2 NMC

Evening

Welcome drink

4-2 II

**

Banquet

11-3 NMC

Panel Discussion Plenary Talk Workshop

* Previous to the session 2-3, "Guenter Bauer Memorial Talk" will be held.
** ICANS contact meeting

Discussion Items

1. Blue Sky Session
2. Facility Session
3. Target and Moderator Development (TM)
4. Integrated Interface (II)
5. Accelerator and Beam Transport (ABT)
6. Neutron Instruments (NI)
7. Devices (D)
8. Sample Environments (SE)
9. Shielding (S)
10. Data Acquisition and Analysis (DAA)
11. New Moderator Concept and Compact Source (NMC)
12. Safety & Operation for High Power Facilities (SO)

Programme and Plenary Speakers

1. Blue Sky Session (Panel Discussion)

Chair: Andrew Taylor
Panelists:
Dimitri Argyriou, Jack Carpenter, Roger Pynn, Henrik Rönnow, Ferenc Mezei, Masatoshi Arai, Andrew Tayler

• Accelerator needed for neutron sources in the future
• Remarkable science using neutron and light sources
• Future perspective in neutron sources

2. Facility Session (Plenary Session)

Chair: Jack Carpenter
Prominently progressed facilities

• ISIS TS2 by Robert McGreevy
• IBR-2 by Alexander Belushkin
• SNS by Kevin Jones
• J-PARC by Masatoshi Arai

Chair: Hesheng Chen
Strategies for next steps at facilities

• Upgrade of TS (Target Station) in PSIby Christian Rüegg
• Upgrade of FTS (First Target Station) in ISISby Matt Fletcher
• Plan of STS (Second Target Station) in SNSby Ken Herwig
• Upgrade of TS in LANSCEby John L. Erickson
• Plan of ADS in J-PARC by Toshinobu Sasa
• Plan of STS in J-PARC by Masatoshi Futakawa

Chair: Mark Bourke
Advances in coming Facilities

• Advances in ESSby Jim Yeck
• Advances in CSNSby Hesheng Chen

3. Target and Moderator Development (Workshop)

Chair: John Hains
Co-chair: Masatoshi Futakawa

• Target session including pitting issue, life estimation, PIE etc.
  - Pitting issue, Solid vs liquid target, ADS target

Co-chair: Rolando Granada

• Moderator session

Co-chair: Bertrand Blau

• Utilities and remote handling

4. Integrated Interface
(Plenary Session)

Chair: Chun Loong

• Past experiences and lessons learned by Roger Pynn
• Past experiences and lessons learned by Feri Mezei
• Short summary of the approach and lessons learned from ISIS-TS2 by Sean Langridge
• ESS moderator-instruments interfaces and how to best handle these by Ken Andersen
• Instruments - Advanced modeling of neutron scattering data at SNS and SNS-TS2 approach on moderator-instruments interfaces by Garrett Granroth
• Experiences from J-PARC/MLF by Hiroshi Takada

(Panel Discussion)

Chair: Roger Pynn
Panelists
Feri Mezei, Sean Langridge, Ken Andersen, Thomas Proffen, Dimitri Argyriou, Robert McGreevy, Ken Herwig, Masatoshi Arai

5. Accelerator and Beam Transport (Workshop)

Chair: Kevin Jones
Co-chair: Michikazu Kinsho

• Present status and future on accelerator
• Intense-beam accelerator commissioning and operation
• Challenges of high-power pulsed beam and target interactions

6. Neutron Instruments (Workshop)

Chair: Robert McGreevy
Co-chair: Ken Andersen

• New and planed instruments (What science is target?)

Co-chair: K. Nakajima

• Advanced neutron instrumentation techniques

Co-chair: Alexander Ioffe

• Beam line design and simulations
• Beam line design code, PHITS, MCNPX, McStas, etc.
• Background reduction (including T0 chopper, curved guide, etc.)

7. Devices (Workshop)

Chair: Nigel Rhodes
Co-chair: Kazuhiko Soyama

• Chopper (mechanical and non mechanical chopper)
• Detectors (³He alternative detector, etc.)
• Optics (super mirror, focusing devices and polarizer, etc.)

8. Sample Environments (Workshop)

Chair: Zoe Bowden
Co-chair: Kazuya Aizawa

• Furnace, cryostat, magnet, high pressure, collimators etc.
• Robotics (sample exchange machine)
• Time transient methodology (in-situ, real time measurement, etc.)

9. Shielding (Workshop)

Chair: Gunter Muhrer
Co-chair: Yoshiaki Kiyanagi

• For target station, beam line
• Simulation, PHITS, MCNPX, etc.
• Shielding materials, Colemanite and Barytes concrete, etc.

10. Data Acquisition and Analysis (Workshop)

Chair: Toshiya Otomo
Co-chair: Mark Hagen

• Data acquisition system (Hard and software)
• Frame work software (Integrated software, MANTID, IROHA, etc.)
• Data analysis software (Z-code, new analysis method G(r,t) etc.)

11. New Moderator Concept and Compact Source (Plenary and Workshop)

Chair: Dave Baxter
Co-chair: Michihiro Furusaka
Plenary

• NMC (New Moderator Concept) and CS (Compact Source) by Yoshiaki Kiyanagi
• NMC as for IBR-2by Sergey Kulikov
• Low-Dimensional High Brightness Hydrogen Moderators by Alan Takibayev or Feri Mezei

12. Safety & Operation for High Power Facilities (Workshop)

Chair: Eric Pitcher
Co-chair: Yoshimi Kasugai

• Treatment of high radioactive components and radioactive gas production
• Lesson and learn

Gunter Bauer Memorial

Chair: Masatoshi Arai
by Jack Carpenter