Title: The ISIS proton accelerator and neutron facility - current operation and future upgrades

Speaker: Robert McGreevy (STFC, RAL, ISIS)

Moderator: Prof. CHEN Hesheng, CAS Academician

Time: 09:50 AM, May 8

Place: Room C305, IHEP Main Building

Abstract:

ISIS is the UK national facility for neutron scattering, based on a 800 MeV proton synchrotron sending beam to two tungsten targets and then 30 neutron instruments. In this talk I will describe

• the current status of the facility including increasing international partnerships;
• plans for short term development including instruments, Target Station 1 upgrade and the accelerator;
• ideas for longer term development.

About the speaker:

I am originally a condensed matter physicist from Oxford University, UK, with interests in the structure of disordered materials (liquids, glasses), specialising in the use of neutron scattering and related experimental techniques together with computer modelling. While still research active I published over 180 papers on topics ranging from high temperature superconductivity to molecular liquids. The RMC technique of structural modelling that I developed has now been used in about 1500 publications. I have held senior management positions at the Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory (Sweden), a reactor based neutron source, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) with both accelerator (SNS) and reactor (HFIR) based sources. Since 2012 I have been Director of the ISIS facility in the UK.