ESS Progressing into Construction
M. Lindroos·Aurélien Ponton·Mohammad Eshraqi·Yngve Levinsen·Andreas Jansson·Carlos Martins·R. Garoby·H. Danared
The construction of the European Spallation Source, ESS, started in summer 2014. At the site in Lund, the accelerator tunnel will be completed at the time of IPAC16, while prototyping and manufacturing or prepara-tions for manpower contributions are going on in more 23 laboratories distributed over the 12 European countries collaborating on the accelerator project. Major technical milestones have been reached include the testing of su-perconducting cavity prototypes of two families to values abo