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The U.S Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made one cooperative agreement
We are involved in efforts to collate data on precision measurements and the theoretical description of these measurements with the aim to improve the values of
The detection of low energy charged particles is essential to high precision fundamental physics experiments, particularly with neutron beta decay. The majority
In October 2020 the Department of Energy (DOE) created a new laboratory consortium with a mission to “advance the efficiency and durability of proton exchange
Information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) programs provide an understanding of risk tolerance and help officials set priorities and consistently manage
We investigate collisions of atoms in either micro-Kelvin gasses or in nano-colliders, where two small atomic clouds are made to collide with adjustable energy
NIST is building a cold-atom vacuum sensor (CAVS) that will be able to measure pressures in the ultra-high vacuum (UHV) regime corresponding to pressures less
In recent years criminals and other attackers have compromised the networks of several major hospitality companies, exposing the information of hundreds of
The NIST NeXT detector is the first imaging system to combine the power of both neutron imaging and x-ray 3-D tomography into a powerful, single-pass probe for