DNS is a versatile diffuse scattering cold neutron time-of-flight spectrometer with polarization analysis. It allows the unambiguous separation of nuclear coherent, spin incoherent and magnetic scattering contributions simultaneously over a large range of scattering vector Q and energy transfer E. With its compact size DNS is optimized as a high intensity instrument with medium Q- and E- resolution.
New chopper and position sensitive detector systems are to be installed at DNS. This is expected to largely improve possibilities for single-crystal time-of-flight spectroscopy with efficient measurements in all 4 dimensions of S(Q,E). With its unique combination of single-crystal time-of-flight spectroscopy and polarization analysis, DNS is also complimentary to many modern polarized cold neutron triple-axis spectrometers.