OPTIMIZATION OF THE HYSPEC DESIGN USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS.

HYSPEC is a direct geometry spectrometer to be installed at the SNS [1] on beamline 14B where it will view a cryogenic coupled hydrogen moderator, The ''hybrid'' design combines time-of-flight spectroscopy with focusing Bragg optics to provide a high monochromatic flux on small single crystal samples, with a very low background at an extended detector bank. The instrument is optimized for an incident energy range of 3-90meV. It will have a medium energy resolution (2-10%) and will provide a flux on sample of the order of 10{sup 6}-10{sup 7} neutrons/s-cm{sup 2}. The spectrometer will be located in a satellite building outside the SNS experimental hall at the end of a 35m curved supermirror guide. A straight-slotted Fermi chopper will be used to monochromate the neutron beam and to determine the burst width. The 15cm high, 4cm wide beam will be focused onto a 2cm by 2cm area at the sample position using Bragg reflection from one of two crystal arrays. For unpolarized neutron studies these will be Highly Oriented Pyrolitic graphite crystals while for polarized neutron studies these will be replaced with Heusler alloy crystals. These focusing crystal arrays will be placed in a drum shield similar to those usedmore » for triple axis spectrometers. Hyspec will have a movable detector bank housing 160 position sensitive detectors. This detector bank will pivot about the sample axis. It will have a radius of 4.5m, a horizontal range of 60{sup o}, and a vertical range of {+-} 7.5{sup o}. In order to reduce background at the detector bank both a curved guide and a T0 chopper will be used. A bank of 20 supermirror bender polarization analyzers [2] will be used to spatially separate the polarized neutrons in the scattered beam so that both scattered neutron spin states can be measured simultaneously. The results of Monte Carlo simulations performed to optimize the instrument design will be discussed.« less