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This two-day workshop will engage the international neutron scattering community to vet and improve the Lujan Center Strategic Plan 2007-2013 (SP07). Sponsored by the LANL SC Program Office and the University of California, the workshop will be hosted by LANSCE Professor Sunny Sinha (UCSD).

Endorsement by the Spallation Neutron Source will be requested. The discussion will focus on the role that the Lujan Center will play in the national neutron scattering landscape assuming full utilization of beamlines, a refurbished LANSCE, and a 1.4-MW SNS. Because the Lujan Strategic Plan is intended to set the stage for the Signature Facility era at LANSCE, there will be some discussion of the long-pulse spallation source at Los Alamos.

Breakout groups will cover several new instrument concepts, upgrades to present instruments, expanded sample environment capabilities, and a look to the future. The workshop is in keeping with a request by BES to update the Lujan strategic plan in coordination with the SNS and the broader neutron community. Workshop invitees will be drawn from the LANSCE User Group and a broad cross section of the US, European, and Pacific Rim neutron scattering research communities. 

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Expected Outcome

The primary deliverable will be a workshop report defining questions and recommendations for the future of the Lujan Center.  Among the questions to be addressed, does the Stratigice Plan 2007 . . .

  • Adequately set the stage for
    L-PARC or similar signature facility at LANL?
  • Optimally utilize, from the general user science perspective, the Lujan spallation sourced for neutron scattering and nuclear physics?
  • Meet the expectations for mission science at the Laboratory?
  • Incorporate relevant recommendations from prior planning workshops, such as San Diego I (2005) and Santa Fe I (2006)?
  • Define the best instrumentation suite in view of SNS and other national neutron centers?
  • Determine a proper strategy for future spallation targets to serve the instrument suite?
  • Address implementation and ownership?
  • Provide reasonable resource requirement estimates?
  • Cover contingencies?

Alan Hurd, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center Director, LANSCE