The scientific results of BrightnESS

The aim of BrightnESS is to support the construction of ESS in key technical areas and in-kind coordination. The grant provides resources for the development, testing and optimisation of ESS’s state-of-the-art technologies.

Besides the official deliverables of BrightnESS, which will ensure that the relevant commitments of the project have officially been made, the project will result in various scientific output to the benefit of not only the ESS, but also the broader neutron science community.

At this stage of the BrightnESS project, the submitted and approved scientific articles of BrightnESS include:

• Neutron reflectometry on highly absorbing films and its application to 10B4C-based neutron detectors
• First measurements with new high-resolution gadolinium-GEM neutron detectors
• Low-temperature growth of boron carbide coatings by direct current magnetron sputtering and high-power impulse magnetron sputtering
• Trimethylboron as Single-Source Precursor for Boron–Carbon Thin Film Synthesis by Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition
• Evolution in boron-based GEM detectors for diffraction measurements: from planar to 3D converters (requires login)
• Monte Carlo Particle Lists: MCPL
• The light-yield response of a NE-213 liquid-scintillator detector measured using 2 -- 6 MeV tagged neutrons
• The Multi-Blade Boron-10-based Neutron Detector for high intensity Neutron Reflectometry at ESS

An updated overview of all the BrightnESS scientific articles can be found in the Scientific articles page.

IMAGE shows the cassettes of the Multi-Blade detector, taken from the article The Multi-Blade Boron-10-based Neutron Detector for high intensity Neutron Reflectometry at ESS.