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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt'>ESS-Bilbao-Initiative issues an open call for
collaboration leading to a modernized design of the ESS Baseline.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>A call for international collaboration leading to an
up to date design of the European Spallation Source accelerator and target
systems has been issued the last 23 September at Riga by the ESS-Bilbao team
within the recently held ESS-Scandinavia-Third Round Table Meeting. The
announcement comes into line with recent efforts carried out by the ESS-Bilbao
technical team geared towards the preparation of a new baseline design for the
accelerator which profits from major advances that have been registered in
recent years within accelerator science and technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Work carried out at Bilbao for the last few years
helped to pave the way towards, shorter, energy-efficient, accelerator
structures that rely mostly upon cutting edge superconducting cavities
technologies. The latter have now come to age and constitute the prime proton
accelerator structures for beam energies beyond a few tens of
megaelectronvolts. The benefits of going into a mostly superconducting proton
accelerator stems from its lesser environmental impact as well as from a
considerable increases in machine reliability. First, because of the wide use
of superconducting cavities, the machine length could be largely reduced if
compared to the current ESS-Scandinavia and ESS-Hungary Baseline Designs (from
632 m down to 350 m). Also, electricity consumption is significantly lowered
within superconducting structures with respect o normal conducting copper
structures where about half of the power is wasted as heat which needs to be
eliminated. Second, superconducting cavities are by design highly modular structures
which enables the action of compensation mechanisms which make the accelerator
highly reliable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Activities leading to an optimal choice of target
systems run concurrently to accelerator work and a joint ESS-B/ SNS
mini-workshop of target issues will be held at Bilbao the next 1<sup>st</sup>
and 2<sup>nd</sup> October 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>ESS-B calls to all those interested in getting
involved in the preparation of a modernized baseline for the coming European
Spallation Source to attend a kick-off meeting to be held at Bilbao the 27<sup>th</sup>,
28<sup>th</sup> November 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>All those interested in attending any of those events,
please contact Ms. Ugidos (maugidos@essbilbao.com).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sira Cordón<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Press Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ESSBilbao<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>94 607 66 28<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>scordon@essbilbao.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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