Community-driven review establishes top instrument priorities to secure U.S. leadership in quantum materials, energy innovation, advanced manufacturing, and soft matter science The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA), in partnership with the SNS-HFIR User Group Executive Committee (SHUG-EC), today announced the publication of a comprehensive consensus report defining scientific priorities and recommending first-generation instrument concepts for the

The report, “Advancing U.S. Leadership: The Science Case for a Second Target Station at the Spallation Neutron Source” identifies grand scientific challenges that must be addressed to maintain U.S. scientific leadership and the characteristics and capabilities the Second Target Station (STS) must have to enable transformative scientific discoveries in those essential areas. The report was the outcome