Instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source

SNS currently has 13 instruments available for users. Each instrument is designed to complement the other instruments in the suite and to benefit several different areas of science.

If you're unsure which instrument(s) would most benefit your research, or if you would like to request capabilities that you don't see here, please contact our user office.

All SNS Instrument fact sheets are also available in this single PDF document.

Available to Users

Beam Line	Fact Sheet	Instrument Name			Contact(s)
1B	PDF	NOMAD	–	Nanoscale-Ordered Materials Diffractometer	Jörg Neuefeind
2	PDF	BASIS	–	Backscattering Spectrometer	Eugene Mamontov
3	PDF	SNAP	–	Spallation Neutrons and Pressure Diffractometer	Chris Tulk
4A	PDF	MR	–	Magnetism Reflectometer	Valeria Lauter
4B	PDF	LR	–	Liquids Reflectometer	John Ankner
5	PDF	CNCS	–	Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer	Georg Ehlers
6	PDF	EQ-SANS	–	Extended Q-Range Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Diffractometer	William Heller
7	PDF	VULCAN	–	Engineering Materials Diffractometer	Ke An
11A	PDF	POWGEN	–	Powder Diffractometer	Ashfia Huq
13	PDF	FNPB	–	Fundamental Neutron Physics Beam Line	Geoffrey Greene
15	PDF	NSE	–	Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer	Michael Ohl
17	PDF	SEQUOIA	–	Fine-Resolution Fermi Chopper Spectrometer	Garrett Granroth
18	PDF	ARCS	–	Wide Angular-Range Chopper Spectrometer	Doug Abernathy

In Commissioning or Under Construction

Beam Line	Fact Sheet	Instrument Name			Contact(s)
1A	PDF	USANS	–	Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument	Michael Agamalian
9	PDF	CORELLI	–	Elastic Diffuse Scattering Spectrometer	Feng Ye
11B	PDF	MaNDi	–	Macromolecular Neutron Diffractometer	Leighton Coates
12	PDF	TOPAZ	–	Single-Crystal Diffractometer	Christina Hoffmann
14B	PDF	HYSPEC	–	Hybrid Spectrometer	Barry Winn
16B	PDF	VISION	–	Vibrational Spectrometer	Christoph Wildgruber

Proposed

Beam Line	Instrument Name
unassigned	SERGIS	Spin-Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering
10	VENUS	Versatile Neutron Imaging Instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source
unassigned	ZEEMANS	Neutron Scattering at High Magnetic Fields

Instrument Support

Support Area	For general SNS instrument support, contact Bobby Cross.
Sample Environment
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