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Recoil-Order and Radiative Corrections to the aCORN Experiment

July 8, 2024
Author(s)
Maynard Dewey, Jeffrey Nico, Fred Wietfeldt
The aCORN experiment measures the electron-antineutrino a-coefficient in free neutron decay. We update the previous aCORN results to include radiative and recoil corrections to first order. The corrected combined result is a = -0.10859 +/- 0.00125 (stat) +

Liquid Deuterium Cold Source Concept for the NIST Neutron Source

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
John Jurns, Philipp Arnold, Jeremy Cook, Osman Celikten
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) houses an aging reactor that serves more than 40 % of all cold neutron research needs in the U.S. First critical in 1967, the National Bureau of Standards Reactor

Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of the 1:1 Acetylene:Ammonia Cocrystal Relevant to Titan, Saturn's Moon

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Morgan Kramer, Trump Benjamin, Luke Daemen, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Yongqiang Cheng, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Craig Brown, Tomce Runcevski
The surface of Titan, Saturn's icy moon, is believed to be comprised of various molecular minerals with a great diversity in structure and composition. Under the surface conditions, 93 K and 1.45 atm, most small molecules solidify and form minerals

Suppression of Segmental Chain Dynamics on a Particle's Surface in Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposites

June 18, 2024
Author(s)
Jihyuk Kim, Benjamin Thompson, Taiki Tominaga, Takahito Osawa, Takeshi Egami, Stephan Forster, Michael Ohl, Erkan Senses, Antonio Faraone, Norman J. Wagner
The Rouse dynamics of polymer chains in model nanocomposite polyethylene oxide/silica nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated using quasielastic neutron scattering. The apparent Rouse rate of the polymer chains decreases as the particle loading increases

United States Navy Nuclear Accident Dosimetry Program: History and Current Status

June 15, 2024
Author(s)
Alexander Romanyukha, Jessica Saunders, David Boozer, Keith Consani, Jeff Delzer
United States Code of Federal Regulations 10, § 835.1304 requires that installations possessing sufficient quantities of fissile material to potentially constitute a critical mass, such that the excessive exposure of individuals to radiation from a nuclear

Bubbles Enable Volumetric Negative Compressibility in Metastable Elastocapillary Systems

June 13, 2024
Author(s)
Davide Caprini, Francesco Battista, Pawel Zajdel, Giovanni Di Muccio, Carlo Guardiani, Benjamin Trump, Marcus Carter, Andrey Yakovenko, Eder Amayuelas, Luis Bartolome, Simone Meloni, Yaroslav Grosu, Carlo Massimo Casciola, Alberto Giacomello
Although coveted in applications, few materials expand when subject to compression or contract under decompression, i.e., exhibit negative compressibility. A key step to achieve such counterintuitive behaviour is the destabilisations of (meta)stable

A New Inelastic Neutron Spectrometer HODACA

May 28, 2024
Author(s)
Hodaka Kikuchi, Shinichiro Asai, Taku Sato, Taro Nakajima, Leland Harriger, Igor Zaliznyak, Takatsugu Masuda
A new multiplex-type inelastic neutron scattering spectrometer, HOrizontally Defocusing Analyzer Concurrent data Acquisition spectrometer (HODACA), was recently developed and built at the C1-1 cold neutron beam port in JRR-3. The spectrometer is suitable

Assessment of the Retrospective and Prospective Economic Impacts of Investments in U.S. Neutron Research Sources and Facilities from 1960 to 2030

May 1, 2024
Author(s)
Amanda Walsh, Sara Nienow, Jonathan Merker, Emily Decker, Claire Strack, Marwa Salem, Gray Martin, Brooke Shaw
RTI International received funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct a study on the retrospective and prospective economic impacts of investments in U.S. neutron scattering research facilities from 1960 through 2030

Thermoreversible gels of hollow silica nanorod dispersions

May 1, 2024
Author(s)
Haesoo Lee, KHUSHBOO SUMAN, David Moglia, Ryan Murphy, Norman Wagner
Colloidal suspensions of anisotropic particles are ubiquitous in particle-based industries. Consequently, there is a need to quantify the effects of particle shape on equilibrium phases and kinetic state transitions, particularly at lower aspect ratios (L

Pivotal Roles of Triple Screening-Topological, Electrostatic, and Hydrodynamic-On Dynamics in Semidilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions

March 26, 2024
Author(s)
Rajeev Kumar, Ali Slim, Antonio Faraone, Jan-Michael Carrillo, Ryan Poling-Skutvik, Murugappan Muthukumar, Amanda Marciel, Jacinta Conrad
For semidilute polyelectrolyte solutions, it is generally assumed that topological, electrostatic, and hydrodynamic interactions are screened (called triple screening). Despite a large body of research focused on polyelectrolyte solutions, the concept of

Visualizing 3D Morphologies and Spatial Heterogeneities of Li after Fast- Charging via In-situ Neutron Tomography

March 22, 2024
Author(s)
Maha Yusuf, Anders Kaestner, Markus Wied, Jacob LaManna, Nghia Vo, Alison Dunlop, Andrew Jansen, Bryant Polzin, Stephen Trask, Markus Strobl, Vanessa Wood, Michael Toney, Johanna Weker
Mechanistic understanding of Li plating is imperative to developing fast-charging batteries for sustainable electric vehicles. Here, we report in-situ 3D characterization of the morphology and spatial heterogeneities of Li plating using neutron micro

Data-driven Simulations For Training AI-Based Segmentation of Neutron Images

March 19, 2024
Author(s)
Pushkar Sathe, Caitlyn M. Wolf, Youngju Kim, Sarah M. Robinson, Michael Daugherty, Ryan Murphy, Jacob LaManna, Michael Huber, David Jacobson, Paul A. Kienzle, Kathleen Weigandt, Nikolai Klimov, Daniel Hussey, Peter Bajcsy
Neutron interferometry is unique in its ability to measure atomic scale properties of materials that no other imaging modality can. However, building, operating, and using such neutron imaging instruments poses constraints on the acquisition time and on

Swelling of Star Polymer Thin Films Exposed to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

March 14, 2024
Author(s)
Ayse Caglayan, Sushil Satija, David Uhrig, Kunlun Hong, Tadanori Koga, Bulent Akgun
Impact of polymer chain architecture on the swelling of supported single-layer polymer thin films with thicknesses below 80 nm in the presence of supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is investigated using in-situ neutron reflectivity (NR) and exsitu x-ray

Reorientational Dynamics in Y(BH4)3:xNH3 (x = 0, 3 and 7): The Impact of NH3 on BH4- Dynamics

March 9, 2024
Author(s)
Jakob Grinderslev, Ulrich Haussermann, T. Jensen, Antonio Faraone, Michihiro Nagao, M. Karlsson, Terrence J. Udovic, M. Andersson
The reorientational dynamics of Y(BH4)3·xNH3 (x = 0, 3, and 7) was studied using quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) and neutron spin echo (NSE). The results showed that changing the number of NH3 ligands drastically alters the reorientational mobility

Designing Nuclear Fuels with a Multi-Principal Element Alloying Approach

March 1, 2024
Author(s)
G. Beausoleil, J. Zillinger, L. Hawkins, T. Yao, Abdullah Weiss, X. Pu, N. Jerred, D. Kaoumi
Previous research has shown that multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) using chromium, molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, titanium, vanadium, and zirconium can form stable body-centered-cubic (BCC) structures across a large temperature region (25°C to 1000°C)

Dynamic Structure Factor of Undulating Vesicles: Finite-Size and Spherical Geometry Effects with Application to Neutron Spin Echo Experiments

February 14, 2024
Author(s)
Rony Granek, Ingo Hoffmann, Elizabeth Kelley, Michihiro Nagao, Petia Vlahovska, Anton Zilman
We consider the dynamic structure factor (DSF) of quasi-spherical vesicles and present a generalization of an expression that was originally formulated by Zilman and Granek (ZG) for scattering from isotropically oriented quasi-flat membrane plaquettes. The

Small-Pore Hydridic Frameworks Store Densely Packed Hydrogen

February 6, 2024
Author(s)
Hyunchul Oh, Nikolay Tumanov, Voraksmy Ban, Xiao Li, Bo Richter, Matthew Hudson, Craig Brown, Gail Iles, Dirk Wallacher, Scott Jorgensen, Luke Daemen, Rafael Balderas-Xicohtencatl, Yongqiang Cheng, Anibal Ramirez-Cuesta, Michael Heere, Sergio Posada-Perez, Geoffroy Hautier, Michael Hirscher, T. Jensen, Yaroslav Filinchuk
Nanoporous materials have attracted great attention for gas storage, but achieving high volumetric storage capacity remains a challenge. Here, by using neutron powder diffraction, volumetric gas adsorption, inelastic neutron scattering and first-principles

Operando analysis of the positive active mass of lead batteries by neutron diffraction

January 30, 2024
Author(s)
Miguel Rodriuqez-Goemz, Javier Campo, Aloida Orera, Fernando de La Fuente, Jesus Valenciano, Holger Fricke, Yan Chen, Ke An, Daniel Hussey, Angel Larrea
We have analysed, through neutron diffraction experiments with the volume-gauge technique, the in operando performance of lead cells composed of industrial positive and negative electrodes, previously tank formed in the manufacturing plant. The cells, 6.5
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