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VITESS is an open source software package for the simulation of neutron instruments and virtual neutron experiments. It allows simulating practically all components used in current neutron scattering instruments and thus simulating all kinds of instruments at existing neutron sources. [...]

High-Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (HiCANS) are a promising new type of neutron source with the potential to serve as national neutron sources, providing an alternative to research reactors. Several countries are currently developing HiCANS facilities, including Germany's High Brilliance neutron Source (HBS), which has been described in a Technical Design Report.As part of the preparation for its construction, a prototype of the HBS is planned to be built on the campus of the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) in Jülich, Germany, within the next decade. [...]

In the beginning, neutron instrument simulation software was mainly used to optimize instrument designs in terms of high flux and favorable beam properties at the sample position. Then it was extended to virtual experiments by adding sample and detector in the simulation. [...]