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Spallation Neutron Source Target 

From Argyll
Member of AboveTopSecret.com
(Edited and Additions by Pegasus)

Can anyone identify this machinery?
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From ATS Thread: Can anyone identify this machinery?

Posted by Argyll, on August 18, 2009 ATS Post ID 493230

Could anyone identify the machinery pictured below? 

Some of you will probably have seen it on another site, and I've a feeling it's a hoax, but I'd be interested to hear whAt people think it may be before I say what it's alleged to be. 

Thanks in advance 

Posted by Argyll, on August 19, 2009 ATS Post ID 6937181

Believe it or not this is purported to be a picture of the mercury coils on the looking glass system!!!  Apparently the room has yellow lighting so that any leaking gas can be seen as a green vapour. 

As I have already stated I tend to think the picture is a hoax, but I was just interested to hear other peoples views.

Posted by zorgon, on August 21, 2009 ATS Post ID 6950410
 
Originally posted by Argyll
"Well since there's around 11k active users here........can anyone give a reasonable assumption to what this is?"


Well it would have helped if you gave the link to the source... 
I get annoyed when I have to hunt down the links 

James Casbolt 
Project Avalon nee Project Camelot

A Looking Glass facility exists on the island of Penang in Malaysia. I was there as a child in 1982. My NSA files states I was there in October of 1982. This is because Looking Glass works most effectively in this month. I helped open a stargate on October 31st of this year. A important date to be sure- Halloween/All Hallows Eve/All Saints Eve, better known to pagans and druids as Samhain. Connected to the A.I system, the group of beings I helped come through were not pleasant. Lets get the photographs up before we talk about this.

The photograph below shows the Mercury Coil on the Looking Glass system, magnifiers ( in the background on the right ) and coolant pumps ( background on the left ). This was taken on a friend's last visit to a Looking Glass site ( cannot disclose location ). The yellow lighting in the room is so that any diffused or leaking gas will show up as green vapor ( if regular white light is used you cannot see the gas). If there is a leak it can be fixed or the area evacuated as not to be exposed to poisonous coolant gases or leaking mercury which is deadly. The coil spins highly heated mercury. The same principal is used inside various craft. The spinning mercury is used to open up worm holes, create gravitation forms and is also used for gravitational drives.

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Related Links:
  • James Casbolt: Former M16 Agent... has he been proven to be a hoax?
Guess it didn't work website link dead now. For anyone interested in 'Looking Glass"

Pegasus Document Release #003 

Through the Looking Glass with Phase Conjugation 
Fall 1982 
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Jury is still out on this photo... 

Photo Identified

Posted by rwiggins, on August 22, 2009  ATS Post ID 6955628

My gut tells me that this is part of a high energy physics lab. The plumbing looks like that in high vacuum / cryo applications. Perhaps it generates a beam of neutrons? Protons? Electrons? Try asking around in some of the physics forums. I'm sure someone knows exactly what this device is. 

Edited to add: It may be a spallation neutron source target 

Credit: research contact: Mark Wendel ORNL

ref: www.csm.ornl.gov...

Regardless, I think the answer is more down to earth. Like I said, asking around various physics forums or departments may lead to a definitive answer. 

Edit to add: Forgot to mention that the spallation neutron source target is filled with mercury!!!!! Click on the picture/diagram on the page I sourced above to see details. 

Edit to add (again!): I think I nailed it. Take a look at this webpage: 

www.sns.gov...

Fourth picture down. Look familiar? 

Credit: ORNL

Related Links:

Posted by zorgon, on August 22, 2009

reply to post by rwiggins

Good work  That would be an affirmative. The picture earlier was taken through that greenish window perhaps. Someone needs to post that on Avalon  I would but errr I ain't paying $5.00 a month to post 

Posted by rwiggins, on August 22, 2009 ATS Post ID 6955735

Proof positive as to identification of mystery photograph:

Credit: Photo by Michael Patrick
CAPTION: The new target vessel at the Spallation Neutron Source can be seen through a window of 4-foot-thick solid glass sections. The previous vessel had been in place since 2006 and exceeded its expected lifespan.
www.knoxnews.com...

I did a google image search for "spallation neutron source target" and the first photograph pointed to the above link.

Posted by rwiggins, on August 22, 2009 ATS Post ID 6955741

And the location of the exact photograph: 

www.sciencedaily.com...

Yay, mystery solved!

How SNS Works

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a national multiprogram research and development facility managed by
UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Revised: Friday, March 6, 2009 12:35 PM

Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
Artists conception of SNS 

Negatively charged hydrogen ions are produced by an ion source. Each ion consists of a proton orbited by two electrons. The ions are injected into a linear accelerator, which accelerates them to very high energies. The ions are passed through a foil, which strips off each ion's two electrons, converting it to a proton. The protons pass into a ring where they accumulate in bunches. Each bunch of protons is released from the ring as a pulse. The high-energy proton pulses strike a heavy-metal target, which is a container of liquid mercury. Corresponding pulses of neutrons freed by the spallation process will be slowed down in a moderator and guided through beam lines to areas containing special instruments such as neutron detectors. Once there, neutrons of different energies can be used in a wide variety of experiments.

The baseline design calls for an accelerator system consisting of an ion source, full-energy linear accelerator (linac), and an accumulator ring that combine to produce short, powerful pulses of protons. These proton pulses impinge onto a mercury target to produce neutrons through the spallation nuclear reaction process. At full power, SNS will deliver 1.4 million watts (1.4 MW) of beam power onto the target, and it has been designed with the flexibility to provide additional scientific output in the future. This approach is intended to provide a facility that will meet the neutron intensity needs of the science community well into the next century.

Ion Source

The SNS front-end system includes an ion source, beam formation and control hardware, and low-energy beam transport and acceleration systems. The ion source produces negative hydrogen (H- ) ions—hydrogen with an additional electron attached—that are formed into a pulsed beam and accelerated to an energy of 2.5 million electron volts (MeV). This beam is delivered to a large linear accelerator (linac).

Linac

Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
 Credit: ORNL
The 1,000-foot SNS linear accelerator is made up of three different types of accelerators.
It is the first of its kind used to generate a pulsed energy beam. (Click for larger view.)

The linac accelerates the H- beam from 2.5 to 1000 MeV, or 1 GeV. The linac is a superposition of normal conducting and superconducting radio-frequency cavities that accelerate the beam and a magnetic lattice that provides focusing and steering. Three different types of accelerators are used. The first two, the drift-tube linac and the coupled-cavity linac, are made of copper, operate at room temperature, and accelerate the beam to about 200 MeV. The remainder of the acceleration is accomplished by superconducting niobium cavities. These cavities are cooled with liquid helium to an operating temperature of 2 K. Diagnostic elements provide information about the beam current, shape, and timing, as well as other information necessary to ensure that the beam is suitable for injection into the accumulator ring and to allow the high-power beam to be controlled safely.

Accumulator Ring

Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
The SNS ring intensifies the high-speed ion beam and shoots it at the
mercury target 60 times a second. (Click for larger view.)

The accumulator ring structure bunches and intensifies the ion beam for delivery onto the mercury target to produce the pulsed neutron beams. The intense H- beam from the linac must be sharpened more than 1000 times to produce the extremely short, sharp bunch of neutrons needed for optimal neutron-scattering research. To accomplish this goal, the H- pulse from the linac is wrapped into the ring through a stripper foil that strips the electrons from the negatively charged hydrogen ions to produce the protons (H+ ) that circulate in the ring. Approximately 1200 turns are accumulated, and then all these protons are kicked out at once, producing a pulse less than 1 millionth of a second (10-6seconds) in duration that is delivered to the target. In this way, short, intense proton pulses are produced, stored, and extracted at a rate of 60 times a second to bombard the target.

Target

Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
The curved, rectangular object is the SNS target.
Inside is liquid mercury, where spallation takes place.

Because of the enormous amount of energy that the short, powerful pulses of the incoming 1-GeV proton beam will deposit in the spallation target, it was decided to use a liquid mercury target rather than a solid target such as tantalum or tungsten. SNS will be the first scientific facility to use pure mercury as a target for a proton beam.

Mercury was chosen for the target for several reasons: (1) it is not damaged by radiation, as are solids; (2) it has a high atomic number, making it a source of numerous neutrons (the average mercury nucleus has 120 neutrons and 80 protons); and (3), because it is liquid at room temperature, it is better able than a solid target to dissipate the large, rapid rise in temperature and withstand the shock effects arising from the rapid high-energy pulses.

The neutrons coming out of the target must be turned into low-energy neutrons suitable for research—that is, they must be moderated to room temperature or colder. The neutrons emerging from the target are slowed down by passing them through cells filled with water (to produce room-temperature neutrons) or through containers of liquid hydrogen at a temperature of 20 K (to produce cold neutrons). These moderators are located above and below the target. Cold neutrons are especially useful for research on polymers and proteins.

SNS is an inherently safe way to produce neutrons because the neutron production stops when the proton beam is turned off. It also produces few hazardous materials. To maximize the safety of the facility, the SNS is designed to have many levels of containment to keep potentially hazardous material from getting into the environment.

Instrumentation and Experiment Facilities

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Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL

Schematic SNS instrument suite for showing the 18 currently planned beam lines. Final instrumentation will be determined by the user community through the SNS Instrument Oversight Committee. (Click to see a detailed view of the instruments for each beam line and the scientific areas where each instrument will be applicable.)

SNS Instrument System Beam Lines

The SNS instrument hall will eventually contain 24 instruments on 18 beam lines. Each SNS instrument is designed to be the best in its class and to complement the other instruments in the suite. Each instrument is expected to benefit several areas of science.The figure below shows the beam lines designated for the currently funded instruments. Roll over and click on the instrument description boxes to go to the related instrument web pages for more detailed information. Clicking anywhere else on the target building will bring up a full size PDF of this target building and beamlines layout.

SNS Instrument System Beam Lines - [PDF][Archived]

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Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
Exterior of the first completed SNS instrument, the backscattering spectrometer.
(Click for larger view.) 

SNS will initially have one target station operating at a frequency of 60 Hertz (Hz). Two "thermal" moderators and two "cold" moderators will be used to service 18 beam lines, and a variety of instruments will be constructed on these beam lines. For the experiment facilities, the SNS expects 1000 to 2000 users each year from all walks of science and industry. Because not all these users will be experts in neutron scattering, the SNS will provide scientists and technicians to maintain and operate the instruments and work closely with the user community.

The broad user community has been and will continue to be involved in the selection, design, construction, and operation of the instruments. The user community recommended and prioritized a suite of ten instruments for initial installation at the 60-Hz target station. Eight beam lines have been be reserved for cooperative research teams to develop and install additional instruments.

Scientific Research at SNS

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Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
Atomic structures are obtained by letting the full neutron spectrum from the
source scatter from a crystal into a position-sensitive multidetector. 

The instruments at the SNS, such as neutron spectrometers, will be used to determine the positions, or arrangements, of atoms in crystals, ceramics, superconductors, and proteins. How does a neutron spectrometer work? A pulse of neutrons generated by the spallation source follows a flight path to the sample. Because the neutrons have varying energies and wavelengths, they spread out in time, presenting a continuous spectra to the sample. When the distance between atoms in a crystal matches the wavelength of an incident neutron, that neutron is scattered into a multidetector that records the position (scattering angle) and time of arrival of the scattered neutron. The result is a pattern of peaks showing the different positions and arrival times of various numbers of neutrons reaching each point in the multidetector. This pattern tells scientists how different atoms are arranged in the crystal.

Instrumentation based on the same principles can be used to determine the atomic structure of glasses and complex fluids or the residual stresses in industrial parts. Instruments to measure inelastic scattering will require measurement of the time of neutron travel over paths leading to and from the sample. In this way, instruments can determine the excitation spectra of materials of importance and thus the nature of the forces that hold the atoms in place. The time-of-flight technique makes it possible to collect a large number of data points for each neutron pulse. The efficiency of instruments that measure neutron time of flight and the ability of accelerator-based spallation neutron sources to produce pulsed beams of increasing intensity promise to provide continuously improved neutron sources in the future.

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Artist's conception of SNS. Click for larger view.
Credit: ORNL
Pattern obtained from the multidetector in time and space for a crystal of the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu307. The position of the atoms can be obtained from the pattern.

SOURCE PAGE: How SNS Works

Neutron Sciences is operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science

Revised: Friday, March 6, 2009 12:35 PM

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