European Spallation Source ERIC lab PPP project

project in planning

The European Spallation Source is one of the largest science and technology infrastructure projects being built today. The facility design and construction includes the most powerful linear proton accelerator ever built, a 4-tonne, helium-cooled tungsten target wheel, 22 state-of-the-art neutron instruments, a suite of laboratories, and a supercomputing data management and software development center. In the context of its history and future as a scientific organization, however, it is more than the sum of its parts. It is a brand new organization, being built from the ground upEurope’s need for an advanced, high-power neutron facility was articulated 20 years ago. The European Spallation Source is a pan-European project with several European nations as members and Sweden and Denmark as host nations. The ESS facility is being built in Lund, while the ESS Data Management and Software Centre is located in Copenhagen. Around two to three thousand guest researchers will carry out experiments at ESS each year. Most of the users will be based at European universities and institutes, others within industry.The construction of the facility began in the summer of 2014.