Announcement...

ICANS-XVIII

I. Preface

The 18^th Meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS-XVIII) will be held in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China, April 25-29, 2007.

ICANS comprises an informal network of international laboratories. ICANS originated in discussions that took place in 1977 at Argonne National Laboratory among John M. Carpenter of Argonne National Laboratory, Rex G. Fluharty of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Leo C. W. Hobbis of Rutherford Laboratory, and Motoharu Kimura, representing Tohoku University and the Japanese National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK). ICANS has now expanded to twelve member-Laboratories worldwide. In the past 30 years, the ICANS meetings have provided a forum for scientists and engineers all over the world to advance the development of accelerator-based neutron sources. Valuable information, compiled in voluminous ICANS Proceedings, has been generated on the subjects of accelerator systems, target and moderator station, and scattering instrumentation hardware/software.

The attention of the Collaboration is on the subjects of accelerator development, source (target) and moderator development, and neutron scattering instrumentation development. The collaboration has the following goals:

• to facilitate the exchange of technical information
• to provide for review of results and designs
• to reduce duplication of efforts
• to identify areas for collaborative efforts, and
• to provide means for informing participants about plans for activities relating to pulsed and steady spallation source development.

With neutron science playing an ever increasing role in material characterization across many disciplines, we have witnessed heavy investment in building modern spallation neutron sources by governments, notably the MW-class SNS and J-PARC, being commissioned and nearing completion of construction, respectively, in the US and Japan. Under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China plans to build a new neutron user facility, the Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), for fundamental R&D in Dongguan City. When completed, the facility will join the rank of high-flux neutron sources dedicated to multi-disciplinary scientific research. By hosting ICANS-XVIII, the Chinese Academy of Sciences welcomes the world's experts in neutron science and neutronics technology to convene in Dongguan, for a professional, productive and pleasurable discussion/exchange of recent advance in spallation neutron sources.

II. Conference Chairman

       Institute of Physics

ICANS International Advisory Committee 

• J. Carpenter (ANL)

• H. Conrad (FKJ)

• A. Belushkin (JINR)

• S. Ikeda (KEK)

• T. Mason (ORNL)

• R. McGreevy (RAL) 

• Y. Oyama (JAERI)

• G. Shapiro (BNL)

• M. Snow (IUCF)

• W. Wagner (PSI)

• J. Zhang (CAS)

Local Organizing  Committee

• Yuquan Li        Honorary Chair 

• Jiuqing Wang   Chair 

• Gang Chen

• Yanwei Chen

• Shaopeng Chi

• Linlin Wang

• Sheng Wang

• Chunyan Xing

• Tongzhou Xu

• Qiwei Yan

• Shaoying Zhang

Conference Secretaries

•  Administrative Secretary 

　　　Tiejun Deng 
　　　dengtj@ihep.ac.cn
　　　Tel:　+86-10-88235014
　　　Fax:　+86-10-88233374

•  Academic Secretaries

　　　Shaopeng Chi                     Sheng Wang                    
            chisp@ihep.ac.cn                            wangs@ihep.ac.cn
            Tel: 　+86-10-88235125                Tel:     +86-10-88236232  
　　　Fax:　+86-10-88233374                Fax:    +86-10-88233374

VI. Scientific Program

The program will consist of invited and contributed papers within the categories listed below:

1. Facility reports:
    Status report

2. Accelerator:
    Intense-beam accelerator development
    Intense-beam accelerator commissioning and operation
    Accelerator and target interface

3. Target station
    Neutronics
    High power target and target materials
    Moderators and reflectors
    Shielding
    Target station engineering
    Experiments with target stations

4. Instruments:
    Fundamental Physics
    Diffraction
    Optics
    Sample environments
    Detectors and data collection
    Spectrometers
    Instruments design

VII. Key Dates

January     31, 2007              Abstract due

March      15, 2007               Hotel reservation due

April         25-29, 2007         Meeting

VIII. Venue

P.O.Box 918,Beijing 100049,China      Tel:86-10-88235008