Super ADAM

The neutron reflectometer Super ADAM placed at Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL), the most powerful research reactor in the world, is an international infrastructure that gives Swedish researchers unique access and support to use advanced neutron scattering to study interfacial phenomena. The Super ADAM instrument is the only neutron scattering facility owned and operated by the Swedish research community.

This application concerns the operation and further development of this successful and highly competitive neutron reflectometer.

The access to the facility is granted after evaluation of submitted applications, where 70% of the time is reserved for Swedish users and the remaining 30% is accessible for researchers in the ILL´s member states.

This proposal involves Uppsala University, Linköping University, and Lund University as the leading partners, with the ambition to involve all Swedish researchers and industrial partners that benefit from access to neutron scattering.The Super ADAM project is an interdisciplinary project dedicated to serve the whole research community from life science, soft matter to material science and magnetic materials.

Therefore, in addition to facilitating excellent science by offering beamtime with strong support, it also promotes utilization of other neutron sources.

It is an essential component for Sweden to prepare for the start-up of ESS by strengthening Swedish competence in neutron science and development of neutron scattering instruments.We request support for operating and developing the existing infrastructure including new tools like magnetic reference layers for life science and soft matter as well as fundamental physics studies.

In addition, we request funding for the development of a new 3 Å, high flux, branch of the instrument that will allow for new applications, boost the flux of neutrons to the sample, and as it can be run in parallel it can double the capacity to meet the increasing requests of beamtime.