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Physics

Nuclear physics

News and Updates

skyrmions

Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm

Projects and Programs

Neutron Detector Replacement

Security (Archive): Neutron Detector Replacement Program

Completed
This course of action has included an intense sequence of tests of alternative technologies performed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Nevada National Security Site. NIST has been integral to all phases of these testing programs, including evaluation of submitted detectors, design and
NG-6 beam line

Fundamental Physics: Experiments with a Precision Neutron Polarimeter

Ongoing
We completed a successful run of an experiment to study the strong interaction using weak interaction properties of the neutron. The neutron spin-rotation experiment is based on the principle that a transversely polarized neutron beam will experience a parity-violating rotation of its polarization
liquid scintillator detector

Applied: Methods in Neutron Detection and Spectroscopy

Completed
Energetic neutrons (> 1 MeV) play a variety of important roles from dosimetry to the fundamental sciences. Fast neutrons can be an often under-appreciated but significant biological dose from accelerators and nuclear facilities, serve as a way of detecting nuclear materials, and can often yield

Publications

Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR

Author(s)
Hans Pieter Mumm, Manoa Andriamirado, Baha Balantekin, Christopher Bass, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, Ethan Bernard, Nathaniel Bowden, Christopher Bryan, Rachel Carr, Timothy Classen, Andrew Conant, Geoffrey Deichert, Michelle Dolinski, Anna Erickson, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Sasmit Gokhale, Chris Grant, Sunej Hans, Adam Hansell, Karsten Heeger, Blaine Heffron, David Jaffe, Shashank Jayakumar, John Koblanski, Paige Kunkle, Charles Lane, Bryce Littlejohn, Adrian Lozano Sanchez, Xiaobin (Jeremy) Lu, Jelena Maricic, Michael Mendenhall, Andrew Meyer, Radovan Milincic, Paul Mueller, Russell Neilson, Xin Qian, Christian Roca, Richard Rosero, Pranava Teja Surukuchi, Felicia Sutanto, Diego Venegas-Vargas, Pierce Weatherly, James Wilhelmi, Minfang Yeh, Chao Zhang, Xianyi Zhang
The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7 – 9 m) from compact nuclear reactor cores

Reactor Antineutrino Directionality Measurement with the PROSPECT-I Detector

Author(s)
Hans Mumm, Manoa Andriamirado, Baha Balantekin, Christopher Bass, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, Ethan Bernard, Nathaniel Bowden, Christopher Bryan, Rachel Carr, Timothy Classen, Andrew Conant, Geoffrey Deichert, Michelle Dolinski, Anna Erickson, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Sasmit Gokhale, Chris Grant, Sunej Hans, Adam Hansell, Karsten Heeger, Blaine Heffron, David Jaffe, Shashank Jayakumar, John Koblanski, Paige Kunkle, Charles Lane, Bryce Littlejohn, Adrian Lozano Sanchez, Xiaobin (Jeremy) Lu, Jelena Maricic, Michael Mendenhall, Andrew Meyer, Radovan Milincic, Paul Mueller, Russell Neilson, Xin Qian, Christian Roca, Richard Rosero, Pranava Teja Surukuchi, Felicia Sutanto, Diego Venegas-Vargas, Pierce Weatherly, James Wilhelmi, Minfang Yeh, Chao Zhang, Xianyi Zhang
The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. In this paper, a detailed report on the

Activity standard and calibrations for 227Th with ingrowing progeny

Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Brittany Broder, Leticia Pibida, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Morgan DiGiorgio, Elisa Napoli, Brian E. Zimmerman
Thorium-227 was separated from its progeny and standardized for activity by the triple-to-double coincidence ratio (TDCR) method of liquid scintillation

Tools and Instruments