Over 100 physicists from around the world shape the future science programmes of ESS at Lund Conference.

On 2-4 December, the European Spallation Source will welcome the global physics communities to help identify the unique research opportunities that the ESS will provide within fundamental and medical physics, in order to shape an important facet of the science programme at ESS.

The European Spallation Source will be the world’s most powerful research facility for materials research with neutrons. The scientific planning started some years ago in order to maximise the scientific opportunities at ESS.

Besides materials science, however, ESS will be able to provide unparalleled research opportunities for fundamental and medical physics research. ESS welcomes the physics communities to incorporate the research opportunities within neutron, neutrino, nuclear, muon and medical physics at ESS in their long-term research programmes.

- Europe, including the Nordic countries, has many top quality physics communities, and the ESS will provide a wide spectrum of physicists unique research opportunities. We hope that the physics communities will grasp this chance to participate in the building-up of the science programmes at ESS, says Professor Mats Lindroos, responsible for Accelerator Design and formerly project leader for several CERN facilities.

-    The more today’s scientists engage in planning the future ESS research, the better science programmes we will be able to shape, as we forward to the finalisation of the ESS design.

The Workshop on Neutron, Neutrino, Nuclear, Muon and Medical Physics at ESS will be held on 2-4 December in Lund, Sweden.

The unexpectedly large attendance at this workshop demonstrates the wide interest, which ESS has as a research tool.

- Questions which range from the origin of the universe on the one hand to the treatment of rare cancers on the other are topics high on the agenda of the meeting, says Professor Colin Carlile, Director of the ESS.