We CANS Do It: A Step Towards a Canadian PC-CANS

With a shortage of neutrons worldwide, a desire for the development of compact accelerator-driven neutron sources (CANS) has arisen. As such, a prototype Canadian CANS (PC-CANS) is proposed as the first steps towards rebuilding Canadian neutron capabilities. A challenge for this project is demonstrating that such a build will yield useful and efficient measurement capabilities for the user community. To emulate the proposed PC-CANS capabilities, the use of a modified LOQ setup (modified aperture) with a lower neutron flux will be used to measure a variety of experiments to compare the quality of data received versus a native LOQ setup. The experiments planned for the beamtime would include lipid membrane experiments probing structure of vesicles, detection of lipid domains, and monitoring of lipid asymmetry. Further experimentation in other fields, such as a templated silicalite experiment, will also be performed to expand the scope of the investigation and display further capabilities of the CANS instrument to users of other disciplines.