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HYSPEC IDT meeting was held at the SNS on September 9-10, 2004.
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IDT recommends moving HYSPEC to the satellite building outside the target hall.
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BNL's
Hybrid Spectrometer for the SNS
HYSPEC,
an acronym for Hybrid Spectrometer, is a unique instrument whose concept
combines advantages of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique which is traditionally
used at the pulsed sources with those of crystal spectrometers which use continuous neutron beams. It is developed as a collaborative effort of the
Instrument Development Team (IDT) composed of scientists from the leading
US Universities and National Laboratories and an international group of
prominent neutron scattering experts, aimed at designing and
building a conceptually new high-flux inelastic neutron spectrometer at
the pulsed Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at
Construction of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which, when completed in 2006, will provide the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world, will open new exciting opportunities for use in scientific research and industrial development. HYSPEC is optimized for studying the single crystal samples in a broad variety of sample environments, and is intended to supply users of the SNS and the scientific community with a platform for ground-breaking investigations of the low-energy atomic-scale dynamical properties of crystalline solids. It is also planned that this instrument will be equipped with a polarization analysis capability, therefore becoming the first polarized beam spectrometer in the SNS instrument suite, and the first successful polarized beam inelastic instrument at a pulsed spallation source in the world.