McGill.CA / Science / Department of Physics

Physical Society Colloquium

The Spallation Neutron Source: A Powerful Tool for Materials Research

Thom Mason

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The wavelengths and energies of thermal and cold neutrons are ideally matched to the length and energy scales in the materials that underpin technologies of the present and future: ranging from semiconductors to magnetic devices, composites to biomaterials and polymers. The Spallation Neutron Source will use an accelerator to produce the most intense beams of neutrons in the world when it is complete at the end of 2005. The project is being built by a collaboration of five Department of Energy laboratories. It will serve a diverse community of users drawn from academia, industry, and government labs with interests in condensed matter physics, chemistry, engineering materials, biology, and beyond.

Friday, October 22nd 1999, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Key auditorium (room 112)