TARGET OPTIMIZATION STUDIES FOR THE EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is one of Europe’s biggest and most prestigious science projects. ESS will be the world’s most powerful next generation neutron spallation source for research with neutrons, providing a unique tool for studies of the atomic structure and dynamics of matter. In this paper we use GEANT4 simulations to investigate the effects of spallation target material and incident proton energy on the total neutron yield integrated over the neutron energy and emission angle.