ESS - A new European centre for neutron physics and more

by Mats Lindroos (ESS Scandinavia)

Friday 11 Dec 2009, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Stockholm

In May 2009 at a ministerial meeting in Brussels it was decided to site the European Spallation source in Lund in Sweden. Since then the first steering committee for ESS has been held and the ESS team in Lund has been mandated to lead a design update for the facility. The objective is to arrive at a final cost-to-completion for the end of 2012 and start prototyping for key components so that first protons can be delivered in 2018-2019. The possibility for nuclear and particle physics at ESS (and medical applications) is presently being explored and a workshop on this is being organised for 2-4 December 2009 in Lund. I will in my talk present the status of ESS, the plans for the design update with some focus on the linac activities and discuss the nuclear and particle physics programme.