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Believable Statements of Uncertainty

February 8, 2017
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom
Nearly fifty years ago, two landmark papers appeared that should have cured the problem of ambiguous uncertainty statements in published data. Eisenhart’s paper in Science called for statistically meaningful numbers, and Currie’s Analytical Chemistry paper

Experimental Characterization of the Advanced Liquid Hydrogen Cold Neutron Source Spectrum of the NBSR Reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research

August 1, 2015
Author(s)
Jeremy C. Cook, John G. Barker, J. Michael Rowe, Robert E. Williams, Cedric V. Gagnon, Richard M. Lindstrom, Richard Michael Ibberson, Dan A. Neumann
The recent expansion of the NIST Center for Neutron Research facility has offered a rare opportunity to perform an accurate measurement of the cold neutron spectrum at the exit of a newly-installed neutron guide. Using a combination of a neutron time-of

NGD Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-ray Activation Analysis Spectrometer at NIST

April 1, 2015
Author(s)
Rick L. Paul, Dagistan NMN Sahin, Jeremy C. Cook, Christoph W. Brocker, Richard M. Lindstrom, Donna J. O'Kelly
A new instrument for cold neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (CNPGAA) has been designed and constructed as part of the recent expansion of the cold neutron guide hall at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). Located on neutron guide NGD

Reevaluation of Neutron Flux Characterization Parameters for NIST RT-2 Facility

December 31, 2014
Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Vladimir Radulovic, Richard M. Lindstrom, Andrej Trkov
It has been difficult to characterize the thermal to epithermal neutron flux ratio (f) and the measure of the nonideal epithermal neutron flux distribution (α) for the RT-2 pneumatic rabbit facility at the NIST National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR)

Preparation and Characterization of Standard Reference Material 1849 Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula

July 1, 2010
Author(s)
Katherine E. Sharpless, Richard M. Lindstrom, Bryant C. Nelson, Karen W. Phinney, Catherine A. Rimmer, Lane C. Sander, Michele M. Schantz, Rabia Oflaz, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Gregory C. Turk, Stephen A. Wise, Laura J. Wood, James H. Yen
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1849 Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula has been issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a replacement for SRM 1846 Infant Formula, which was issued in 1996. Extraction characteristics of SRM

Certification of Three NIST Renewal Soil Standard Reference Materials(R) for Element Content: SRM 2709a San Joaquin Soil, SRM 2710a Montana Soil I, and SRM 2711a Montana Soil II

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Mackey, Christopher S. Johnson, Richard M. Lindstrom, Stephen E. Long, Anthony F. Marlow, Karen E. Murphy, Rick L. Paul, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Savelas A. Rabb, John R. Sieber, Rabia Oflaz, Bryan E. Tomlin, Laura J. Wood, James H. Yen, Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, S. A. Wilson, M. G. Adams, Z. A. Brown, P. L. Lamothe, J. E. Taggart, C. Jones, J. Nebelsick
For the past 20 y, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has provided three soil Standard Reference Materials certified for element content: SRM 2709 San Joaquin Soil (Baseline Trace Element Concentrations); SRM 2710 Montana Soil I (Highly

Design of a New Instrument for Cold Neutron Prompt Gamma-Ray Activation Analysis at NIST

December 1, 2008
Author(s)
Rick L. Paul, Richard M. Lindstrom, Christoph W. Brocker, Elizabeth A. Mackey
A new instrument for cold neutron prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (CNPGAA) is being designed and constructed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The new instrument is expected to have lower gamma-ray and neutron background and better

Neutron Irradiation in Activation Analysis: A New Rabbit for the NBSR

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom, Rolf L. Zeisler, Elizabeth A. Mackey, P J. Liposky, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Robert E. Williams
Elementary activation analysis assumes that the reaction rate is proportional to the number of atoms of analyte present in the sample. On close examination, this is not always true, even within a set of samples irradiated together. For accurate analysis

Neutron Self-Shielding Factors for Simple Geometries, Revisited

January 1, 2008
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom, Ronald F. Fleming
To assure quality measurements, the algorithms used in data analysis need to be demonstrably correct. In practice, however, some less transparent or more complicated algorithms may be difficult to trace back to their original derivation. We point out that

Development of Certified Reference Materials of Ion-Implanted Dopants in Silicon for Calibration of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometers

January 1, 2007
Author(s)
David S. Simons, Robert G. Downing, George P. Lamaze, Richard M. Lindstrom, Robert R. Greenberg, Rick L. Paul, Susannah Schiller, William F. Guthrie
Certified reference materials have been developed for calibration of the concentrations of the most common dopants used in silicon semiconductor technology boron, arsenic, and phosphorus. These materials consist of a single dopant species that is

Round-Robin Study of Arsenic Implant Dose Measurement in Silicon by SIMS

November 1, 2006
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom, David S. Simons, R Bennett, R. Benbalagh, Bruce S. MacDonald, A. Chew, D. Gehre, H Hasegawa, C. Hitzman, J. Ko, C W. Magee, N. Montgomery, P. Peres, P. Ronsheim, S. Yoshikawa, M. Schuhmacher, W. Stockwell, D. Sykes, M. Tomita, F. Toujou, J. Won

Thermal Neutron Demagnetization of NdFeB Magnets

July 30, 2006
Author(s)
R Klaffky, Richard M. Lindstrom, Brian B. Maranville, Robert D. Shull, B Micklich, J Vacca
To isolate the effect that thermal neutrons have on Nd2Fe14B permanent magnets, the magnetization and coercivity were studied as a function of dose. The changes in remanent magnetization are substantial and are attributed to boron thermal neutron capture

Toolkits for Nuclear Science: Data and Spreadsheets

January 1, 2006
Author(s)
Richard M. Lindstrom
The tools for performing everyday nuclear science have undergone great transformations in the past decade. Because of the ubiquity and speed of networked desktop computers and compatible software, definitive data and high-quality algorithms are widely and