The instrumentation suite for the HBS-I

High-Current Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (HiCANS) are a promising new type of neutron sources, which can offer pulsed neutron beams with performance comparable to today’s existing research neutron sources. The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS at Forschungszentrum Jülich aims to realize a first HiCANS with the HBS-I neutron source featuring a proton beam energy of 20 MeV, a peak current of 100 mA, and a flexible frequency and duty cycle scheme. The HBS-I will allow to exploit the potential of these innovative neutron sources for a broad range of scientific and technological applications. The target station will be located in an experimental area on the campus in Jülich and host a suite of five instruments. A diffractometer, a small angle scattering instrument, and a neutron reflectometer address the most demanded scattering applications, while neutron imaging and prompt gamma neutron activation analysis cover the need of user communities such as engineering or cultural heritage research. This paper describes the preliminary layout of the HBS-I neutron source and the five instruments planned.