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TY - UNPB AU - Permanyer, X. ED - Casas, Joan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Costa, Isidre ED - López, David ED - Prieto, Montserrat TI - An Overview of the European Spallation Source J2 - Proc. of MEDSI2016, Barcelona, Spain, 11-16 September 2016 CY - Barcelona, Spain T2 - Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation Conference T3 - 9 LA - english AB - ESS, the European Spallation Source, will be a major user facility at which researchers from academia and industry will investigate scientific questions using neutron beams. ESS will be a slow neutron source of unparalleled power and scientific performance. The ESS is divided in three main areas: accelerator, target and experiments. The accelerator creates protons at the ion source, accelerates them to an appropriate energy and steers them to a solid, rotating tungsten target. The target converts the high energy proton beam into low-energy neutron beams via the spallation process with the greatest possible efficiency. The neutrons will be delivered to a suite of research instruments, each devised to extract different kinds of information from the samples studied. ESS will reach its full design specifications in 2025, with a suite of 22 research instruments. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -