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@INPROCEEDINGS{Paulin:1017304,
      author       = {Paulin, Mariano Andrés and Pechenizkiy, Ivan and Zakalek,
                      Paul and Lieutenant, Klaus and Kämmerling, Peter and
                      Steffens, Alexander and Kleines, Harald and Rücker, Ulrich
                      and Gutberlet, Thomas and Gautrot, Sébastien and Menelle,
                      Alain and Ott, Frédéric},
      title        = {{D}evelopment of neutron reflectometry at a {H}i{CANS}: the
                      {HERMES} instrument at the {JULIC} {N}eutron {P}latform},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2023-04038},
      year         = {2023},
      abstract     = {High current Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources
                      (HiCANS) have risen as a possible answer to the drop in
                      neutron availability in recent years due to the closure of
                      various research reactors in Europe. Within this new trend,
                      the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) is currently
                      evaluating the performance of neutron techniques around this
                      novel type of source. HERMES [1] is a time-of-flight
                      horizontal reflectometer that was operated by the LLB at the
                      Orphée reactor [2] until 2019 and was mainly employed for
                      soft-matter studies. Through a collaboration with the
                      Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, HERMES was installed in
                      2022 at the JULIC neutron platform at Forschungszentrum
                      Jülich. This platform is able to deliver neutron pulses in
                      the 100 μs-2 ms range and is very well suited to evaluate
                      the feasibility of reflectivity experiments at a HiCANS.
                      Since its installation and first tests in 2022, several
                      improvements have been planned and implemented at HERMES in
                      order to exploit its maximum performance. Our current goal
                      is to perform reflectivity experiments with supermirrors as
                      a proof of concept, as the flux at the JULIC neutron
                      platform is several orders of magnitude lower than the
                      original Orphée flux or the one expected for a HiCANS.
                      Nevertheless, Monte-Carlo simulations showed that an
                      instrument as HERMES operating at a HiCANS could match the
                      performance of similar instruments at medium power research
                      reactors. This work is part of the collaboration within
                      ELENA and LENS on the development of HiCANS. It has been
                      funded by the "CANS Inflexion" program at the CEA and the
                      "IPHI-Neutron" SESAME project of the Île de France
                      region.[1] F. Cousin, F. Ott, F. Gibert, A. Menelle, Eur.
                      Phys. J. Plus 126, 109 (2011)[2] B. Farnoux, D. Cribier,
                      Phys. B+C 120, 31-36 (1983)},
      month         = {Oct},
      date          = {2023-10-16},
      organization  = {10th Annual Meeting of the Union for
                       Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron
                       Sources, Budapest (Hungary), 16 Oct
                       2023 - 19 Oct 2023},
      subtyp        = {Invited},
      cin          = {JCNS-2 / PGI-4 / JCNS-HBS / JARA-FIT},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-4-20110106 /
                      I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-HBS-20180709 / $I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
      pnm          = {632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional
                      Materials (POF4-632) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron
                      Research (JCNS) (FZJ) (POF4-6G4)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G4},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1017304},
}