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Superconducting Linac - Spoke Section

Superconducting Linac - Spoke Section

A view from the Spoke section of the ESS Superconducting Linac, upstream towards the Target.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Normal Conducting Linac - Drift Tube Linac

Normal Conducting Linac - Drift Tube Linac

A view from the Drift Tube Linac section to the Superconducting Linac

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Target Wheel Installation

Target Wheel Installation

Installation of the Target Wheel in the Monolith, November 2023.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Target Wheel Installation

Target Wheel Installation

Target Wheel on route to the Monolith vessel.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Neutron shielding bunker

Neutron shielding bunker

The neutron shielding bunker inside Experimental Hall 1.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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ESS Director General Helmut Schober stands to the left of the King of Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström, by a red carpet outside the shiny glass office buildings of ESS

VIP State Visit

ESS Director General welcomes the King of Sweden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Minister of Education Mats Persson and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström.

Image: Ulrika Hammarlund/ESS

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Handshake Macron

Handshake Macron

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DG talk

DG talk

ESS Director General presenting ESS.

Image: Helen Fröderberg/ESS

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Documents

Explore ESS - poster (English)

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Videos

What is ESS?

A short video explaining what the European Spallation Source (ESS) is, how it works and what it is for.

What will the ESS instruments do?

Why have 13 European countries teamed up to build a giant neutron microscope in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden? To study the smallest building blocks of the world around us, to gain a deeper understanding and to develop the materials needed in our future, sustainable society. Find out more in this video.

Science with neutrons

What are neutrons and why will we use them at ESS? Because neutrons have special properties making them a powerful tool for science. Find out more in this short video.

We will change the world

Come change the world with us.

CREDIT: ESS

Texts, Drugs and Dinosaurs - Neutrons Show the Way

How has science changed our lives? How will neutrons help us meet the challenges of the future? And what's it like to work in an international science facility under construction? This talk will take you on a trip through archaeology, life science and magnetism, and end up at a huge construction site.

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