Contract award record
UKRI-3937 ISIS Linear Accelerator
Notice details
- Published
- Category
- goods
- Buyer region
- South West
- Source
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Public buyer and contract winner
Award value£1,607,832
- AwardedCompleted
- StartCompleted
- EndCompleted
Work description
ISIS, sited at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), is the world's most productive pulsed neutron source. Intense bursts of neutrons are produced at 20mS intervals when a heavy metal target is bombarded by a high-energy (800 MeV) proton beam from a synchrotron accelerator releasing neutrons by the process of spallation. This is for a contract for a replacement for the Accelerator system which uses a thermionic triode valve (tube) amplifier which is coming to the end of its production life. This is required to ensure continued operation of the facility.