Lujan Center at LANSCE
The Lujan Center is one of five user facilities supported by the LANSCE accelerator, which is stewarded by NNSA. Together these instruments provide capability for basic and applied neutron science relevant to academia, national security, and industry.
Mission
The Lujan Center delivers science by exploiting the unique characteristics of intense beams of moderated pulsed neutrons for academia, national security, and industry.
Vision
The Lujan Center will operate a world class user program in the service of the nation. Lujan Center scientists will be recognized for their leadership and innovation in neutron scattering.
Lujan Center User Capabilities
The Lujan Center instruments operate in time-of-flight mode, receiving neutrons from a tungsten spallation target. Four moderators provide epi-thermal, thermal and cold neutrons to specialized beamlines. The facility operates for a total of 3,000 hours per year.
Instrument Suite
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SMARTS - Flight Path 2 Spectrometer for Materials Research at Temperature and Stress
Engineering diffraction -
HIPPO - Flight Path 4 High-Pressure-Preferred Orientation instrument
Crystallography, engineering and strain, disordered materials -
ERNI - Flight Path 5 Energy-resolved Neutron Imaging
Neutron radiography and tomography, neutron resonance spectroscopy, detector development -
Asterix - Flight Path 11 Neutron reflectometer / cold neutron imaging
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NPDF - Flight Path 1 Neutron Powder Diffractometer
