International Workshop on Position Sensitive Neutron Detectors 2018

The venue was ideal, the event was highly successful with about 100 people attending. There were 41 talks, and a poster session with 26 posters. There were well-attended industrial attendees and exhibitor booths, which developed a lot of discussion and contacts. Several additional meetings took place as satellite meetings to the main workshop on Thursday and Friday.

The atmosphere was highly collaborative and collegiate, with many discussions, and new collaborations, joint projects and mutual interests emerging. As such, it was highly useful in bringing the neutron detector community together. It was clear that the neutron community has been spurred into action by the twin challenge of the Helium-3 crisis as well the impact of detector development in Europe for ESS which are coming to fruition. Here, in particular, the impact that the BrightnESS project has is central to these detector developments: there were 13 talks and posters given by BrightnESS persons on both detector developments and data acquisition and handling, however half the talks mentioned input from BrightnESS results. It was generally agreed that such a workshop was needed every 2-3 years in the future.