Peer Reviewed Publications for NSSC3:
October 2023 – September 2024 (NSSC3 Year 3):
- Darren Parkison, “Fabrication of bulk delta-phase Zirconium Hydride from Zircaloy-4 for use as moderators in microreactors,” Scripta Materialia, Volume 239, October 2023, 115771, ISSN 1359-6462, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115771
- Gordon, J. M., Batchelder, J. C., Bernstein, Lee A., Bleuel, D. L., Brand, C. A., Brown, J. A., Goldblum, B. L., Frandsen, B. G., Laplace, T. A., and Nagel, T. 2024. “GENESIS: Gamma Energy Neutron Energy Spectrometer for Inelastic Scattering”. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169120.
- Dominic Lioce, Tom Byvank, Anil Prinja, et al., “Design of Experiments to Spectroscopically Characterize Radiation Flow in Stochastic Media,” Physics of Plasmas, Volume 31, Issue 4 (April/2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0198139
- Peter Boone, Jennifer Shusterman, Tashi Parsons-Davis, et al., “Electrophoretic deposition for improved trace element homogeneity in silica reference materials.” Materials Letters, Volume 361, February 2024,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2024.136089.
- Joe Brackbill, Thayalan Rajeshkumar, John Arnold, et al., “Spectroscopic and Computational Evidence of Uranium Dihydrogen Complexes,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 146, January 2024. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c12636
- Aaron Hurst, Richard Firestone, Emanuel Chimanksi, et al., “pyEGAF: Modernization of the EGAF database,” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, January 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-09316-2.
- A. Sweet, D.L. Bleuel, N.D. Scielzo, L.A. Bernstein, A.C. Dombos, B.L. Goldblum, C.M. Harris, T. A. Laplace, A.C. Larsen, R. Lewis, S.N. Liddick, S.M. Lyons, F. Naqvi, A. Palmisano-Kyle, A.L. Richard, M.K. Smith, A. Spyrou, J. Vujic, and M. Wiedeking, “Nuclear level density and γ decay strength of 93Sr,” Phys. Rev. C 109, 054305 (2024).
October 2022 – September 2023 (NSSC3 Year 2):
- Frame, E and Barnowski, R and Gunter, D and Mihailescu, L and Vetter, K. “A dual-modality volumetric gamma-ray imager for near-field applications,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9932443
- Stevenson, S., Dong, A., Xie, Y., Morrell, J., Voyles, A. S., Bickel, J., Bernstein, L., Maloy, S. A., & Hosemann, P. (2022). The effects of high energy deuteron ion beam irradiation on the tensile behavior of HT-9. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 531, 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.09.001
- Bello Garrote F, Lopez-Martens A, Larsen A, Deloncle I, Peru S, Zeiser F, Greenlees P, Kheswa B, Auranen K, Bleuel D, Cox D, Crespo Campo L, Giacoppo F, Gorgen A, Grahn T, Guttormsen M, Hagen T, Harkness-Brennan L, Hauschild K, Henning G, Herzberg R, Julin R, Juutinen S, Laplace T, Leino M, Midtbo J, Modamio V, Pakarinen J, Papadakis P, Partanen J, Renstrom T, Rezynkina K, Sandzelius M, Saren J, Scholey C, Siem S, Sorri J, Stolze S, Uusitalo J, “Experimental observation of the M1 scissors mode in 254No”, Physics Letters B, 834, (Nov/2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137479
- Callaghan, E, Goldblum B, Brown, J, Laplace, L, Manfredi, J, Yeh, M, Orebi Gann, G, “Measurement of proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator”, The European Physical Journal C, 83, (February/2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11242-2
- Brown J., Laplace T., Goldblum B., Manfredi J., Johnson T. , Moretti F., Venkatraman A., “Absolute light yield of the EJ-204 plastic scintillator”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, June 2023
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016890022300387X - Hurst, A.M., Pierson, B.D., Archambault, B.C., Bernstein, L.A., and Tannous, S.M., “A decay datababase of coincident γ-γ and γ-X-ray branching ratios for in-field spectroscopy applications”, Eur. Phys. J. (Web of Conf.), 284, 18002 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328418002
- Hurst AM, Firestone RB, Chimanksi EV, “pyEGAF: An open source Python library for the Evaluated Gamma-ray Activation File”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A, September 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168715
- Ryan Smith, “A portable and monoenergetic 24 keV neutron source based on 124Sb-9Be photoneutrons and an iron filter.” JINST 18, P07018 (July 2023). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/18/07/P07018
October 2021 – September 2022 (NSSC3 Year 1):
- Laplace, T.A., Goldblum, B.L., Brown, J.A., LeBlanc, G., Li, T., Manfredi, J.J. and Brubaker, E., “Modeling ionization quenching in organic scintillators”, Materials Advances (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00388K - Mullen, A, Akindele, O, Bergevin, M, Bernstein, A, Dazeley, S. “Improvement in light collection of a photomultiplier tube using a wavelength-shifting plate.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1040 (10/2022). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900222005642
- Batchelder, J.C., Hurst, A.M., Basunia, M.S., “Nuclear Data Sheets for A=186”, 183, 1 (2022)
https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2022.06.001 - A. Reddie and B.L. Goldblum, “Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold,” Journal of Peace Research, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221094734
- J. Tibbetts, B.L. Goldblum, C. Stewart, and A. Hashemizadeh, “Classification of Nuclear Reactor Operations using Spatial Importance and Multisensor Networks,” J. Nucl. Eng., 3(4), 243-262 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/jne3040014
- D.L. Bleuel, S.G. Anderson, L.A. Bernstein, J.A. Brown, J.A. Caggiano, B.L. Goldblum, J.M. Gordon, J.M. Hall, K.P. Harrig, M.S. Johnson, T.A. Laplace, R.A. Marsh, M.E. Montague, A. Ratkiewicz, B. Rusnak, C.A. Velsko, “The 40Ar(d,p)41Ar cross section between 3-7 MeV,” Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 110509 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110509
Peer Reviewed Publications for NSSC2:
October 2020 – September 2021 (NSSC2 Year 5):
- Nguyen LQ, Gabella G, Goldblum BL, Laplace TA, Carlson JS, Brubaker E, Feng PL. “Boron-loaded organic glass scintillators.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2020 Nov 30:164898.
- Frame, P. W., & Frame, E. A. (2021). A History of the Radiation Warning Sign. Health Physics, 120(3), 296-300.
- Vo, H. T., Still, E. K., Kabel, J., Auguste, R., Schreiber, D., Chou, P., & Hosemann, P. (2021). Development of Microscale Bicrystal Tensile Testing for Strength Measurement of Oxidized Grain Boundaries of Alloy 600 Exposed to PWR Environments. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 141197.
- Vo, H. T., Anderoglu, O., Hosemann, P., & Maloy, S. A. (2021). The effects of microstructures and radiation damage on the deformation behavior of a HT-9 alloy using microtensile testing. Materials Characterization, 174, 110972.
- Drnovšek, A., Vo, H. T., de Figueiredo, M. R., Kolozsvári, S., Hosemann, P., & Franz, R. (2021). High temperature fracture toughness of single-layer CrAlN and CrAlSiN hard coatings. Surface and Coatings Technology, 409, 126909.
- Chen, J., Dang, K., Vo, H. T., Hosemann, P., & Fensin, S. J. (2021). Associating GB characteristics with its sink efficiency in absorbing Frank loops in Cu. Scripta Materialia, 192, 61-66.
- Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Extraction of radium and actinium with Pb resin and Rose Bengal”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021
- Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Batch and column studies of radium, actinium, thorium and protactinium on CL resin in nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021
- Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Measurement of the 230Th(p,2n)229Pa and 230Th(p,3n)228Pa reaction cross sections from 14.1 to 16.9 MeV”, Physics Review C, 2021
- G. Gabella et al., “Neutron Response of the EJ-254 Boron-Loaded Plastic Scintillator,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2020.3041215.
- T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum,, J.E. Bevins, D.L. Bleuel, E. Bourret, J.A. Brown, E.J. Callaghan, J.S. Carlson, P.L. Feng, G. Gabella, K.P. Harrig, J.J. Manfredi, C. Moore, F. Moretti, M. Shinner, A. Sweet and Z.W. Sweger, “Comparative scintillation performance of EJ-309, EJ-276, and a novel organic glass,” Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 15, November 2020
- S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration ) (Fernando Torales-Acosta) “Measurement of isolated photon-hadron correlations in √sNN = 5.02 TeV pp and p-Pb collisions,” Phys. Rev. C 102, 044908 – Published 19 October 2020.
- A.M.Hurst, L.A.Bernstein, T.Kawano, A.M.Lewis, K.Song, “The Baghdad Atlas: A relational database of inelastic neutron-scattering data” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 995, 11 April 2021, 165095
- H. T. Vo, K.Q. Dang, F. Teng, M. Schneider, B. Eftink, L. Capolungo, S.A. Maloy, J.D. Tucker, P. Hosemann.“Deformation Twinning Versus Slip in a Ni-based Alloy, Containing Ni2Cr-type, Pt2Mo-Structured Precipitates” Acta Materialia. 2021
- A. Cackett, H. T. Vo, J. Lim, A. Bushby, P. Hosemann, C. Hardie, ”Effects of Radiation Damage and Precipitate Distribution on Micro-Pillar Compression Testing of Irradiated CuCrZr” Acta Materialia. 2021
- H. T. Vo, E. K. Still, K. Lam, A. Drnovšek, L. Capolungo, S. A. Maloy, P. Chou, and Peter Hosemann. ”Experimental methodology and theoretical framework in describing constrained plastic flow of FCC microscale tensile specimens.” Materials Science and Engineering: A 799 (2021): 140124
- Straub, M. D.; Ouellette, E. T.; Boreen, M. A.; Branson, J. A.; Ditter, A.; Kilcoyne, A. L. D.; Lohrey, T. D.; Marcus, M. A.; Paley, M.; Ramirez, J.; Shuh, D. K.; Minasian, S. G.; Arnold, J. “Thorium Amidates Function as Single-Source Molecular Precursors for Thorium Dioxide.” Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4954-4957.
- Straub, M. D.; Moreau, L. M.; Qiao, Y.; Ouellette, E. T.; Boreen, M. A.; Lohrey, T. D.; Settineri, N. S.; Hohloch, S.; Booth, C. H.; Minasian, S. G.; Arnold, J. “Amidinate Supporting Ligands Influence Molecularity in Formation of Uranium Nitrides.” Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 6672-6679.
- A. Galindo-Tellez, K. Keefe, E. Adamek, E. Brubaker, B. Crow, R. Dorrill, A. Druetzler, C.J. Felix, N. Kaneshige, J.G. Learned, J.J. Manfredi, K. Nishimura, B. Pinto Souza, D. Schoen and M. Sweany. “Design and calibration of an optically segmented single volume scatter camera for neutron imaging.” Journal of Instrumentation, 16 (April 2021).
- T. Genda, K. Knight, Z.R. Dai, E. Balboni, B.L. Goldblum, P. Hosemann, “Iron-rich microstructure records of high temperature multi-component silicate melt behavior in nuclear fallout,” Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 237, 106700 (2021).
- T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum, J.J. Manfredi, J.A. Brown, D.L. Bleuel, C.A. Brand, G. Gabella, J. Gordon, E. Brubaker, “Simultaneous measurement of organic scintillator response to carbon and proton recoils,” Phys. Rev. C 104, 014609 (2021).
- J Hecla, K Knecht, D Gunter, A Haefner, D Hellfeld, THY Joshi, A Moran, V Negut, R Pavlovsky, K Vetter, “Polaris-LAMP: Multi-modal 3D Image Reconstruction with a Commercial Gamma-ray Imager”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 09/2021 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9528363
October 2019 – September 2020 (NSSC2 Year 4):
- Manfredi, J, Goldblum, B, Laplace, T, Gabella, G, Gordon, J, O’Brien, A, Chowdhury, S, Brown, J and Brubaker, E, “Proton light yield of fast plastic scintillators for neutron imaging.” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, December 2019,
- Daniel D Wooten “Linear Optimization for Predicting Compositions in Molten Salt Reactors”” – Annals of Nuclear Energy.
Volume 139, May 2020, 107159″ - Laplace, B.L. Goldblum, J.A Brown, J.J. Manfredi, “Scintillator light yield measurements with waveform digitizers,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 959, 163485 (2020). doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.163485.
- A. Bernstein, N. Bowden, B.L. Goldblum, P. Huber, I. Jovanovic, and J. Mattingly, “Colloquium: Neutrino Detectors as Tools for Nuclear Security,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 92, 011003 (2020).
- T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum, J.A. Brown, D.L. Bleuel, C.A. Brand, G. Gabella, T. Jordan, C. Moore, N. Munshi, Z.W. Sweger, A. Ureche and E. Brubaker, “Low Energy Light Yield of Fast Plastic Scintillators,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 954, 161444 (2020).
- Kmak, Kelly; Shaughnessy, Dawn; Vujic, Jasmina, “New measurements of gamma-ray energies and their absolute intensities from the decay of 231Pa.” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (May/2020)
- Kmak, K.N., Shaughnessy, D.A. & Vujic, J. Separation of thorium from uranium ore. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 323, 931–945 (2020)
- Straub, M. D.; Arnold, J; Fessenden, J.; Kiplinger, J. L. “Recent Advances in Nuclear Forensic Chemistry.” Anal. Chem., just accepted (no volume assigned yet). Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03571#
- Ferrier, MG; Kmak, KN; Kerlin, WM; Valdez, CA; Despotopulos, JD. “Transactinide studies with sulfur macrocyclic extractant using mercury.” JRNC (08/2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07320-4
- Vo, H. T., E. K. Still, K. Lam, A. Drnovšek, L. Capolungo, S. A. Maloy, P. Chou, and Peter Hosemann. “Experimental methodology and theoretical framework in describing constrained plastic flow of FCC microscale tensile specimens.” Materials Science and Engineering: A 799: 140124.
October 2018 – September 2019 (NSSC2 Year 3):
- A. M. Hurst, A. Sweet, B. L. Goldblum, R. B. Firestone, M. S. Basunia, L. A. Bernstein, Zs. Révay, L. Szentmiklósi, T. Belgya, J. E. Escher, I. Harsányi, M. Krtička, B. W. Sleaford, and J. Vujic. “Radiative-capture cross sections for the 139La(n,gamma) reaction using thermal neutrons and structural properties of 140La,” Physical Review C (Dec 2018).
- T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum, J.A. Brown, D.L. Bleuel, C.A. Brand, G. Gabella, T. Jordan, C. Moore, N. Munshi, Z.W. Sweger, A. Sweet, E. Brubaker, “Low energy light yield of fast plastic scintillators,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, (Oct 2018).
- Reddie, Andrew W. et al. (2018). “Next Generation Wargames.” Science. Vol. 362 No. 6421. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6421/1362
- Reddie, Andrew W. and Vinod K. Aggarwal (2018) “Comparative Industrial Policy and Cybersecurity: A Framework for Analysis.” Journal of Cyber Policy. Vol. 3 No. 3.
- Reddie, Andrew W. “Design Matters: The Past, Present and Future of the INF Treaty.” Trust & Verify. Vol. 162.
- Straub, M.; Leduc, J.; Frank, M.; Raauf, A.; Lohrey, T.; Minasian, S.; Mathur, S.; Arnold, J. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Phase-Pure Uranium Dioxide Thin Films from Uranium(IV) Amidate Precursors.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., accepted manuscript. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201901924
- Reddie, Andrew W. et al. (2019). “Applying Wargames to Real-world Policies—Response.” Vol. 363 No. 6434: 1406-1407. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6434/1406.3
- Kmak, K; Despotopulos, J; Shaughnessy, D, “210Pb/210Po isotope generator.” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Volume 319 (January/2019). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-018-6350-y
- Atz, M., Salazar, A., Hirano, F., Fratoni, M., Ahn, J. “Assessment of the potential for criticality in the far field of a used nuclear fuel repository.” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 124 (February 2019). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306454918305073?via%3Dihub
- J. Van Dyke, L.A. Bernstein, and R. Vogt, “Parameter optimization and uncertainty analysis of freya for spontaneous fission”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 922 (2019), 36 –46. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900219300014
- Straub, M.; Leduc, J.; Frank, M.; Raauf, A.; Lohrey, T.; Minasian, S.; Mathur, S.; Arnold, J. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Phase-Pure Uranium Dioxide Thin Films from Uranium(IV) Amidate Precursors.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, (Feb. 2019). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201901924
- SNO+ Collaboration, “Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector”, Phys. Rev. D 99, 032008 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032008
- SNO+ Collaboration, “Measurement of the 8B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds”, Phys. Rev. D 99, 012012 (2019) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.012012
- SNO Collaboration, “Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory”, Phys. Rev. D 99, 032013 (2019) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032013
- SNO Collaboration, “Tests of Lorentz invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory”, Phys. Rev. D 98, 112013 (2018) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.112013
- Faculty. J.E. Bevins, Z. Sweger, N. Munshi, B.L. Goldblum, J.A. Brown, D.L. Bleuel, and R.N. Slaybaugh, “Performance Evaluation of an Energy Tuning Assembly for Neutron Spectral Shaping,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 923, 79-87 (2019). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900219300968?via%3Dihub
- Faculty. B.L. Goldblum, A.W. Reddie, J. Reinhardt, “Wargames as experiments: The Project on Nuclear Gaming’s SIGNAL Framework,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 29, 2019. https://thebulletin.org/2019/05/wargames-as-experiments-the-project-on-nuclear-gamings-signal-framework/
- J. C. Batchelder, S.-A. Chong, J. Morrell, M. Ayllon Unzueta, P. Adams, J.D. Bauer, T. Bailey, T.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, M. Fratoni, A.M. Hurst, J. James, A.M. Lewis, E.F. Matthews, M. Negus, D. Rutte, K. Song, K. Van Bibber, M. Wallace, and C. S. Waltz. “Possible evidence of nonstatistical properties in the 35Cl(n,p)35S cross section.” Phys. Rev. C 99 044612 (2019). Published 4/25/19. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.044612
- Sooby Wood, Elizabeth, Parker, Stephen S., Nelson, Andrew T., Maloy, Stuart A., and Butt, D. “ MoSi 2 Oxidation in 670-1498 K Water Vapor.” United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1111/jace.14120. https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jace.14120
- Zeiser, F., Tveten, G. M., Potel, G., Larsen, A. C., Guttormsen, M., Laplace, T. A., Siem, S., Bleuel, D. L., Goldblum, B. L., Bernstein, L. A., Bello Garrote, F. L., Crespo Campo, L., Eriksen, T. K., Gorgen, A., Hadynska-Klek, K., Ingeberg, V. W., Midtbo, J. E., Sahin, E., Tornyi, T., Voinov, A., Wiedeking, M., Wilson, J.,” Restricted spin-range correction in the Oslo method: The example of nuclear level density and gamma-ray strength function from 239Pu(d,p gamma)240Pu”, Phys. Rev. C, 100, 024305 (August 2019) https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024305
- – D. Hellfeld, T. H. Y. Joshi, M. S. Bandstra, R. J. Cooper, B. J. Quiter, and K. Vetter, “Gamma-Ray Point-Source Localization and Sparse Image Reconstruction using Poisson Likelihood”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2088-2099, July 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8768340
- – D. Hellfeld, P. Barton, A. Haefner, D. Gunter, L. Mihailescu, and K. Vetter, “Real-time Free-moving Active Coded Mask 3D Gamma-ray Imaging”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. (in press), September 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8826435
- – Hecla, Jake, Rebecca Krentz-Wee, and Andrew W. Reddie. “The Next Generation NC3 Enterprise: Opportunities and Challenges.” Journal of Science Policy & Governance, Vol. 14, Issue 2, June 2019 http://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/uploads/5/4/3/4/5434385/berkeley_npwg_nc3_final.pdf
October 2017 – September 2018 (NSSC2 Year 2):
– E.F. Matthews, B.L. Goldblum, L.A. Bernstein, B.J. Quiter, J.A. Brown, W. Younes, J.T. Burke, S.W. Padgett, J.J. Ressler, A.P. Tonchev – “FIER: Software for analytical modeling of delayed gamma-ray spectra” – Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A – Volume 891, May 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900218302262?via%3Dihub
– Kirsch, L. E., and Bernstein, L. A. “RAINIER: A simulation tool for distributions of excited nuclear states and cascade fluctuations.” United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.096.
– M.D. Jones, A.O. Macchiavelli, M. Wiedeking, L.A. Bernstein, H.L. Crawford, C.M. Campbell, R.M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, I.Y. Lee, M. Salathe, A. Wiens, A.D. Ayangeakaa, D.L. Bleuel, S. Bottoni, M.P. Carpenter, H.M. Davids, J. Elson, A. Görgen, M. Guttormsen, R.V.F. Janssens, J.E. Kinnison, L. Kirsch, A.C. Larsen, T. Lauritsen, W. Reviol, D.G. Sarantites, S. Siem, A.V. Voinov, S. Zhu. “Understanding the Low-Energy Enhancement of the Gamma-ray Strength Function of 56Fe.” Phys. Rev. C 97 2 024327 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.024327 https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09668v1
– Howard A. Shugart, Edgardo Browne, Eric B. Norman, “Half-lives of 101Rh and 108Agm.” Nuclear Experiment. 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03628
– Jones, M. D., Macchiavelli, A. O., Wiedeking, M., Bernstein, L. A., Crawford, H. L., Campbell, C. M., Clark, R. M., Cromaz, M., Fallon, P., Lee, I. Y., Salathe, M., Wiens, A., Ayangeakaa, A. D., Bleuel, D. L., Bottoni, S., Carpenter, M. P., Davids, H. M., Elson, J., Görgen, A., Guttormsen, M., Janssens, R. V. F., Kinnison, J. E., Kirsch, L., Larsen, A. C., Lauritsen, T., Reviol, W., Sarantites, D. G., Siem, S., Voinov, A. V., and Zhu, S. “Examination of the low-energy enhancement of the γ -ray strength function of Fe 56.” United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.024327.
– Bevins, J. Laderman, S. Goldblum, B. Katzenson, E. Kendrick, J. Krentz-Wee, R. Tian, Y. “A framework for assessing alternate proliferation pathways in the age of nonstate actors.” The Nonproliferation Review, 25 (June/2018). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2018.1493172
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Measurement of J/psi polarization at forward rapidity in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV”. The European Physical Journal C, 78:562 (07/2018). 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6027-2 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-018-6027-2.pdf
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Anisotropic flow in Xe–Xe collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.44 TeV”. Physics Letters B, (06/2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.06.059
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Energy dependence and fluctuations of anisotropic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 and 2.76 TeV. JHEP, 2018:103 (07/2018). 10.1007/JHEP07(2018)103 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02944
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Azimuthally-differential pion femtoscopy relative to the third harmonic event plane in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV”. Physics Letters B, (06/2018). 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.06.042 https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01612
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production and nuclear modification at mid-rapidity in p–Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV”. The European Physical Journal C, 78:466 (06/2018). 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5881-2 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.00765.pdf
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Constraints on jet quenching in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV measured by the event-activity dependence of semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions”. Physics Letters B, 783 (08/2018). 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.059 https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05603
– The ALICE Collaboration, “Measurement of Z0-boson production at large rapidities in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV”. Physics Letters B, 780 (05/2018). 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.03.010 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318301977?via%3Dihub
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “Measurements of mass-dependent azimuthal anisotropy in central p+Au, d+Au, 3He+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV”. Physics Review C, 97 (06/2018). 10.1103/PhysRevC.97.064904. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.064904
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “Lévy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions”. Physical Review C, 97 (06/2018). 10.1103/PhysRevC.97.064911, https://journals.aps.org/prc/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.064911
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy and charged-particle multiplicity in d + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV”. Physical Review C, 96 (12/2017). 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.064905, https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.064905
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “Measurements of Multiparticle Correlations in d+Au Collisions at 200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV and p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV and Implications for Collective Behavior”. Physical Review Letters, 120 (02/2018). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.062302, https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.062302
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “Nuclear Dependence of the Transverse-Single-Spin Asymmetry for Forward Neutron Production in Polarized p+A Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV”. Physical Review Letters, 120 (01/2018). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.022001. https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.022001
– The PHENIX Collaboration, “B-meson production at forward and backward rapidity in p+p and Cu + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV”. Physical Review C, 96 (12/2017). 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.064901. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01085
– Kmak, K., Despotopulos, J., Shaughnessy, D., “Separation of Pb, Bi and Po by cation exchange resin.” J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 314 (09/2017). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10967-017-5487-4.pdf
– Despotopulos, J., Kmak, K., Shaughnessy, D., “Production and isolation of 197m/gHg.” J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 317 (06/2018). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10967-018-5927-9.pdf
– Despotopulos, J., Kmak, K., Moody, K., Shaughnessy, D., “Development of a 212Pb and 212Bi generator for homolog studies of flerovium and moscovium.” J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 317 (04/2018). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-018-5848-7
– J. A. Brown, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace, K. P. Harrig, L. A. Bernstein, D. L. Bleuel, W. Younes, D. Reyna, E. Brubaker, and P. Marleau, “Proton light yield in organic scintillators using a double time-of-flight technique” Journal of Applied Physics 124, 045101 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5039632 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5039632
– Kmak, K. N., Despotopulos, J. D., Shaughnessy, D. A. “210Pb/210Po Isotope Generator.” J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 319. (Nov. 2018). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-018-6350-y
– Parker S., White J., Hosemann P., Nelson A., “Oxidation kinetics of ferritic alloys in high temperature steam environments” Journal of Materials, November 2017. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11837-017-2639-5
– Michael Nacht, Sarah Laderman, Julie Beeston. “Strategic Competition in China-US Relations.” Livermore Papers on Global Security No.5. Oct. 2018. https://cgsr.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/CGSR_livpaper5.pdf
Despotopulos, J., Kmak, K., Gharibyan, N., Moody, K., Sudowe, R., Shaughnessy, D., “Studies of flerovium homologs and pseudo-homologs with crown ether based extraction chromatography resins.” J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem.
October 2016 – September 2017 (NSSC2 Year 1):
– C.L. Stork, C.C. Ummel, D.S. Stuart, S. Bodily, and B.L. Goldblum, “Dynamic Analysis Environment for Nuclear Forensic Analyses,” Computer Physics Communications 210, 60 (2016). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010465516302909
– Akindele, O, Bernstein, A, Norman, E, “Antineutrino Monitoring of Thorium Reactors.” Journal of Applied Physics, 120 (September/2016). http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/120/12/10.1063/1.4963402
– J. M. Munson, E. B. Norman, J. T. Burke, R. J. Casperson, L. W. Phair, E. McCleskey, M. McCleskey, D. Lee, R. O. Hughes, S. Ota, A. Czeszumska, P. A. Chodash, A. J. Saastamoinen, R. A. E. Austin, A. E. Spiridon, M. Dag, R. Chyzh, M. S. Basunia, J. J. Ressler, and T. J. Ross, “Decay branching rations of excited Mg.” Physical Review C, (Jan 2017). https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.015805
– R. Bergmann, K. Rowland, N. Radnovic, R. Slaybaugh and J. Vujic, “Performance and Accuracy of Criticality Calculations Performed Using WARP, A Framework for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport in General 3D Geometries on GPUs.” Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 103, 2017, p. 334-349. https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1344092
– David G. Weisz , Benjamin Jacobsen b , Naomi E. Marks b , Kim B. Knight b , Brett H. Isselhardt b , Jennifer E. Matzel b , Peter K. Weber b , Stan G. Prussin a,1 , Ian D. Hutcheon b,1 “Deposition of vaporized species onto glassy fallout from a near-surface nuclear test.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 201, 2017. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716306147
– D.R. Artusa a,b, F.T. Avignone III b, J.W. Beeman c, I. Dafinei d, L. Dumoulin e, Z. Ge f, A. Giuliani e,g, C. Gotti h, P. de Marcillac e, S. Marnieros e, S. Nagorny i,a, S. Nisi a, C. Nones j, E.B. Norman k, V. Novati e, E. Olivieri e, D. Orlandi a, L. Pagnanini i,a, L. Pattavina a, G. Pessina h, S. Pirro a,∗, D.V. Poda e,l , C. Rusconi h, K. Schäffner i,a, N.D. Scielzo m, Y. Zhu “Enriched TeO2 bolometers with active particle discrimination: Towards the CUPID experiment.” Physics Letter B. Volume 767, 2017. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317301016
– D. Hellfeld, S. Dazeley, A. Bernstein, C. Marianno, “Reconstructing the Direction of Reactor Antineutrinos via Electron Scattering in Gd-Doped Water Cherenkov Detectors”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 841, January 2017, 130-138. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900216310555
– A.M. Hurst, R.B. Firestone, R.W. Sleaford, D.L. Bleuel, M.S. Basunia, F. Becvar, T.Belgya, L.A. Bernstein, J.J. Carroll, J.E. Escher, C. Genreith, B.F. Goldblum, M. Krticka, A.G. Lerch, D.A. Matters, J.W. McClory, S.R. McHale, Zs. Revay, L. Szentmiklosi, D. Turkoglu, A. Ureche, and J. Vujic, “Developments in Capture-Gamma libraries for Nonproliferation Applications,” European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 146, Sep 13, 2017 (2017).
– D. Frazer, S. Qvist, S. Parker, D.L. Krumwiede, M. Caro, J. Tesmer, S.A. Maloy, Y. Q. Wang, P. Hosemann. “Degradation of HT9 under simultaneous ion beam irradiation and liquid metal corrocion.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 479, October (2016) 382-389. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JNuM..479..382F
– C. Howard, D. Frazer, A. Lupinacci, S. Parker, R.Z. Valiev, C. Shin, B. W. Choi, P. Hosemann. “Investigation of specimen size effects by in-situ microcompression of equal channel angular pressed copper.” Materials Science and Engineering A 649 (2016) 104-113. https://www.tib.eu/en/search/id/tema%3ATEMA20151017770/Investigation-of-specimen-size-effects-by-in-situ/?tx_tibsearch_search%5Bsearchspace%5D=tn
– A. J. Parkison, S. S. Parker, A. T. Nelson. “Fabrication of ThN Using a Carbothermic Reduction to Nitridation Process.” Journal of the american Ceramic Society 99 (12) 3909-3914 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14453
– C. Howard, C.D. Judge, D. Poff, S. Parker, M. Griffiths, P. Hosemann. “A novel in-situ, lift-out, three-point bend technique to quantify the mechanical properties of an ex-service neutron irradiated inconel X-750 component.” Journal of Nuclear Materials. Volume 498, 2018. https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0022311517309261?token=108C0C871F093343C0BF4A12243E543219F00E17511D6FE3207A3F76BD73E57C666FA3ADDBB44BC43F91E922CF84EECF
– Hellfeld, Daniel, Barton, Paul, Gunter, Donald, Mihailescu, Lucian, and Vetter, Kai. A “Spherical Active Coded Aperture for 4π Gamma-ray Imaging.” United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1109/TNS.2017.2755982
Peer-Reviewed Publications for NSSC1
September 2015 – September 2016 Publications:
- John D. Despotopulos , Kelly N. Kmak, Narek Gharibyan, Thomas A. Brown, Patrick M. Grant, Roger A. Henderson, Kenton J. Moody, Scott J. Tumey, Dawn A. Shaughnessy, Ralf Sudowe “Production and isolation of homologs of flerovium and element 115 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry,” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. October/2015.
- B. Champine, M. E. Gooden, Krishichayan, E. B. Norman, N. D. Scielzo, M. A. Stoyer, K. J. Thomas, A. P. Tonchev, W. Tornow, and B. S. Wang. “Measurement of the 1 69Tm(n,3n)1 67Tm cross section and the associated branching ratios in the decay of 1 67Tm,” Physics Review C 93, 014611 (2016).
- P. A. Chodash, J. T. Burke, E. B. Norman, et al., “Nuclear excitation by electronic transition of 2 35U”, Phys. Rev. C 93, 034610 (2016).
- T.A. Laplace, F. Zeiser, M. Guttormsen, A.C. Larsen, D.L. Bleuel, L.A. Bernstein, B.L. Goldblum, S. Siem, F.L. Bello Garotte, J.A. Brown, L. Crespo Campo, T.K. Eriksen, F. Giacoppo, A. Görgen, K. HadyńskaKleęk, R.A. Henderson, M. Klintefjord, M. Lebois, T. Renstrøm, S.J. Rose, E. Sahin, T.G. Tornyi, G.M. Tveten, A. Voinov, M. Wiedeking, J.N. Wilson, and W. Younes, “Statistical properties of 2 43Pu and 2 42Pu(n,γ) cross section calculation,” Phys. Rev. C 93, 014323 (2016).
- M. Wiedeking, M. Krticka, L.A. Bernstein, J.M. Allmond, M.S. Basunia, D.L. Bleuel, J.T. Burke, B.H. Daub, P. Fallon, R.B. Firestone, et al. “γray decay from neutronbound and unbound states in 95Mo and a novel technique for spin determination.” Phys.Rev. C 93, 024303 (2016).
- C. Alduino,…,E.B.Norman,etal.” Analysis techniques for the evaluation of the neutrino less double]β decay lifetime in 130Te with the CUORE]0 detector” Physical Review C 93,045503 (2016).
- D.L Bleuel, L.A. Bernstein, C.A. Brand, W.S. Cassata, B.H. Daub, L.S. Dauffy, B.L. Goldblum, J.M. Hall, C.A. Hagmann, L.B. Hopkins, H.Y. Khater, A.L. Kritcher, D.H.G. Schneider, S. Siem, C.A. Velsko and M. Wiedeking, “Method for Detection of Nuclear]Plasma Interactions in a 134Xe]Doped Exploding Pusher at the National Ignition Facility,” J. Plasma Fusion Res. 11, 3401075 (2016).
- T Renstrøm, H]T Nyhus, H Utsunomiya, R Schwengner, S Goriely, AC Larsen, DM Filipescu, I Gheorghe, LA Bernstein, DL Bleuel, T Glodariu, A Görgen, M Guttormsen, TW Hagen, BV Kheswa, Y]W Lui, D Negi,IE Ruud, T Shima, S Siem, K Takahisa, O Tesileanu, TG Tornyi, GM Tveten, M Wiedeking. “Low] energy enhancement in the γ]ray strength functions of 73,74Ge.” Phys. Rev. C 93, #6, 064302 (2016).
- G. J. Kumbartzki, N. Benczer]Koller, K.]H. Speidel, D. A. Torres, J. M. Allmond, P. Fallon, I. Abramovic, L. A. Bernstein, J. E. Bevins, H. L. Crawford, Z. E. Guevara, G. Gürdal, A. M. Hurst, L. Kirsch, T. A. Laplace, A. Lo, E. F. Matthews, I. Mayers, L. W. Phair, F. Ramirez, S. J. Q. Robinson, Y.Y. Sharon, and A. Wiens. “Z=50 core stability in 110Sn from magnetic moment and lifetime measurements.” Phys. Rev. C 93, 044316 (2016).
September 2014-August 2015 Publications:
- R. M. Bergmann, J. L. Vujic, “Algorithmic Choices in WARP – A Framework for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport in General 3D Geometries on GPUs,” Annals of Nuclear Engineering, Volume 77, March 2015, Pages 176–193
- M.D. Abad, S. Parker, D. Kiener, M.M. Primorac, P. Hosemann “Microstructure and mechanical properties of CuxNb1-x alloys prepared by ball milling and high pressure torsion compacting” Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Elsevier. 2015.
- Q. Looker, M. Amman, K. Vetter (UCB), “Amorphous semiconductor contact behavior on high-purity Ge detectors”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 579 (2007) 886–890, Revised June 22, 2015.
- Q. Looker, M. Amman, K. Vetter, “Inter-‐Electrode Charge Collection in High-‐Purity Germanium Detectors with Amorphous Semiconductor Contacts”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Volume 781, 1 May 2015, Pages 20–25
- Zev Winkelman and Michael Nacht, “Turkey: Within Range?,” in Strategic Latency and World Power: How Technology is Changing Our Concepts of Security, edited by Z. Davis, M. Nacht and R. Lehman, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 2014), pp. 87-106.
- Carolyn Chu and Michael Nacht, “Japan: The Most Obvious Latent Case,” in Strategic Latency and World Power: How Technology is Changing Our Concepts of Security, edited by Z. Davis, M. Nacht and R. Lehman, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 2014), pp. 107-118
- Q. Looker, M. Amman, K. Vetter,”Leakage current in high-‐purity germanium detectors with amorphous semiconductor contacts”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Volume 777, 21 March 2015, Pages 138–147
September 2013-August 2014 Publications:
- A. Iyengar, E.B. Norman, et al., Distinguishing fission of 232Th, 237Np, and 238U with beta-delayed gamma rays Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. B 304, 11 (2013)
- Nicholas D. Scielzo, R. M. Yee, A. Czeszumska, E. B. Norman, et al., “A Novel Approach to β-‐delayed Neutron Spectroscopy Using the Beta-‐Decay Paul Trap,” Nuclear Data Sheets 120, 70 (2014)
- D. R. Artisan, E. B. Norman, B. S. Wang, et al., “Initial performance of the CUORE-‐0 experiment,” European Physics Journal C 74, 2956 (2014)
- D.S. Akerib et. al, First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, Physical Review Letters, 112, 091303 (2014)
- J.A. Brown, B.L. Goldblum, L.A. Bernstein, D.L. Bleuel, N.M. Brickner, J.A. Caggiano, B.H. Daub, G.S. Kaufman, R. Hatarik, T.W. Phillips, S.A. Wender, K. van Bibber, J. Vujic, and N.P. Zaitseva, “Relative light yield and temporal response of a stilbene-doped bibenzyl organic scintillator for neutron detection,” J. Appl. Phys. 115, 193504 (2014).
- K. J. Thomas, E. B. Norman, A. R. Smith, and Y. D. Chan., “Installation of a Muon Veto for Low Background Gamma Spectroscopy at the LBNL Low-Background Facility”, Nuclear Instruments & Methods A 724 (2013) 47-53
- L.A. Bernstein, D.L. Bleuel, J.A. Caggiano, C. Cerjan, R. J. Fortner, J. Gostic, P.M. Grant, N. Gharibyan, E.A. Henry, C. Hagmann, R. Hatarik, D. Sayre , D.H.G. Schneider, W. Stoeffl, D. Shaughnessy , D.P. McNabb, K.J. Moody, C.B. Yeamans, N.P Zaitseva, J.A. Brown, B.H. Daub, N.M. Brickner, P.F. Davis, B.L. Goldblum, K. Van Bibber, J. Vujic, R.B. Firestone, A. Hurst, A.M. Rogers, “ Low Energy Neutron Measurement in HED Plasmas using the National Ignition Facility,” Plasma and Fusion Research: Regular Articles, Vol. 9, 4404101, 2014.
- R. M. Yee, E. B. Norman, et al., β-delayed neutron spectroscopy using trapped radioactive ions Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 092501 (2013)
- R. Smith, K. J. Thomas, E. B. Norman, D. L. Hurley, B. T. Lo, Y. D. Chan, P. V. Guillaumon, and B. G. Harvey, Measurements of Fission Products from the Fukushima Daiichi Incident in San Francisco Bay Area Air Filters, Automobile Filters, Rainwater, and Food, Journal of Environmental Protection 5, 207 (2014)
Conference Proceedings and Other Publications
September 2016 – August 2017 Publications:
- Hellfeld, D, Barton, P, Gunter, D, Mihailescu, L, and Vetter, K, “Optimization of a Spherical Active Coded Mask Gamma-Ray Imager”, IEEE NSS-MIC Conference Record, November 2016.
- Assistant Researcher, Hurst, Aaron, “Compilation of the “Atlas of Gamma-rays from the Inelastic Scattering of Reactor Fast Neutrons” (1978DE41) by A.M. Demidov, L.I. Govor, Yu. K. Cherepantsev, M.R. Ahmed, S. Al-Najjar, M.A. Al-Amili, N. Al-Assafi, and N. Rammo”, Report Number LBNL-1007259.
- W. Younes, J. A. Brown, E. F. Matthews “A Micoscophic Theory of Fission”, 6th International Conference on “Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei” (Jan 2017)
- J.E. Bevins, B.L. Goldblum, T. Hickey, E. Katzenson, J. Kendrick, R. Krentz-Wee, S. Laderman, Y. Tian, C. Ting, and A.J. Wehsener, “Alternate Nuclear Proliferation Pathways in the Age of Non-State Actors,” in Proceedings of the Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference, Santa Fe, 2016, (American Nuclear Society, 2016) No. 18782.
- J. Kornell, Z.N. Gastelum, B.L. Goldblum, “Informational Sensing for Nonproliferation,” inProceedings of the Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference, Santa Fe, 2016, (American Nuclear Society, 2016) No. 18849.
- N. Mahowald, B.L. Goldblum, T. Hickey, J. Kornell, “Quantifying Correlations between International Relations and Nuclear Proliferation Status,” in Proceedings of the Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference, Santa Fe, 2016, (American Nuclear Society, 2016) No. 18857.
- Hurst, Bernstein, Norman, “ND2016 has been accepted for publication in the European Physical Journal: Web of Conferences.
September 2015 – August 2016 Publications:
- O. Akindele, R. Norman, A. Bernstein, “Deteching U-233 Diversion using Antineutrinos,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, ANS, November/2015
- T. Renstrom et al. (L. Bernstein) ” First evidence of low energy enhancement in Ge isotopes,” CGS15 – Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, Dresden, Germany, Aug 25-29, 2014. R. Schwenger, K. ZUber, Eds. p.04003 (2015), EPJ Web Conf. 93, (2015)
- A.C. Larsen et al. (L Bernstein), ” Upbend and M1 Scissors Mode in Neutron-rich Nuceli – Consequecnes for r-process (n,y) Reaction Rates,” Acta Phys. Pol. B46, 509 (2015).
September 2014 – August 2015 Publications:
- Barbara Wang, Eric Norman, Nicholas Scielzo, Alan Smith, Keenan Thomas, Stephen Wender, “Cosmogenic-neutron activation of TeO2 and implications for neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments”, arXiv:1503.02095, March 6, 2015.
- Anthony Scopatz, Katy Huff, “Effective Computation in Physics” O’Reilly. Jan/2015 (ebook release)
- Thomas Hickey, Modernization, Deterrence, and Cerutti’s Political Philosophy, The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, April 2, 2015
- Anna Bella Korbatov, “Forget Philosopher-‐Kings, We Need Scientist-‐Policymakers,” The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, September 1, 2014.
- M. Nacht (UCB), in Strategic Latency and World Power: How Technology is Changing Our Concepts of Security, edited by Z. Davis, R. Lehman, and M. Nacht (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 2014).
- Elliott Biondo, Anthony Scopatz, Matthew Gidden, Rachel Slaybaugh, and Cameron Bates. “Quality Assurance within the PyNE Open Source Toolkit.” In Am. Nuc. Soc. Winter Meeting 2014, volume 111. Anaheim, CA, USA, November 2014.
- Cameron Bates, Elliott Biondo, Kathryn Huff, and et al. “PyNE Progress Report.” In Am. Nuc. Soc. Winter Meeting 2014, volume 111. Anaheim, CA, USA, November 2014.
- Huff, Kathryn and Greenberg, Harris and Fratoni, Massimiliano. “Extensions to the CYCLUS Ecosystem in Support of Market-Driven Transition Capability” American Nuclear Society Winter Conference. American Nuclear Society, November, 2014.
September 2013 – August 2014 Publications:
- Alexandra (Sasha) Asghari, “2014 International Symposium on Science and World Affairs,” The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, August 25, 2014
- Kathryn Huff, “Wise as Athena, Swifter than Hermes – Wonderwomen Gather to Improve Scientific Computing.” The Berkeley Science Review, April 30, 2014.
- Adriana Ureche, “Safeguarding the Future at the 2014 Monterey Institute of International Studies Safeguards Course,” The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, June 20, 2014.
- A. Czeszumska, N. D. Scielzo, E. B. Norman, R. M. Yee, et. al, “Novel Approach to b-‐Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy,” Proc. ARIS 2014 et al., Proc. ARIS 2014 Conf. (Tokyo, Japan, June 2014) in pressConf. (Tokyo, Japan, June 2014)
- Erika Suzuki, “NPWG Remembers Heino Nitsche,” The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, August 3, 2014.
- Erika Suzuki, “Breaking the Glass Beaker: Part 1,” The Midnight Watch, Nuclear Policy Working Group, August 19, 2014.
- M. Nacht (UCB), “Recalibrating President Obama’s Global Zero Vision,” Institute of National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, May 2014.
- E. Suzuki and I. Tregub (UCB/LLNL), “Would Japan be Worse Off Building the Bomb? An Analysis of International and Domestic Security Considerations,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, Project on Nuclear Issues, Nuclear Notes, Volume 4, March 2014.
- B.L. Goldblum and J. Vujic, “Nuclear Science and Security Consortium: Training the Next Generation,” in Proceedings of the Institute on Nuclear Materials Management 55th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2014, (Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Deerfield, 2014).
- D. L. Krumwieded, C. Andreades, J-K Choi, At.T. Cisneros, L. Huddar, K. D. Huff, M. R. Laufer, M. Munk, R. O. Scarlat, J.E. Seifried, N. Zweibaum, E. Greenspan, and P. F. Peterson (UCB), “Design of the Mark-1 Pebble-Bed, Flouride-Salt-Cooled, High-Temperature Reactor Commercial Power Plant,” ICAPP 2014, Paper 14231. Charlotte, USA, April 6-9, 2014.
- E. Suzuki, B.L. Goldblum, M. Nacht, S. Prussin, R. L. Brown, and J. Vujic, “Nuclear Security Science and Policy: Connecting Students to Scientists,” in Proceedings of the Institute on Nuclear Materials Management 55th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2014, (Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Deerfield, 2014).
- G. Zhang, J. E. Seifried, P. M. Gorman, C. R. Varela, E. Greenspan, and J. Vujic (UCB) “The fuel-self-sustaining RBWR-Th Core Concept and Parametric Studies,” The 2014 International Congress on the Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP-2014), Charlotte, North Carolina, April 6-9, 2014.
- Huff, Kathryn and Greenberg, Harris and Fratoni, Massimiliano. “Extensions to the CYCLUS Ecosystem in Support of Market-‐Driven Transition Capability” American Nuclear Society 2014 Winter Conference.
- J. E. Seifried, P. M. Gorman, E. Greenspan, C. R. Varela, K. L. Vujic, and G. Zhang (UCB), “Comparison of RBWR and SFR design and performance characteristics,” The 2014 International Congress on the Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP-2014), Charlotte, North Carolina, April 6-9, 2014.
- J. E. Seifried, P. M. Gorman, J. L. Vujic, and E. Greenspan (UCB), “Accelerated equilibrium core composition within a new MCNP-based simulator,” Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo (SNA+M&C 2013), Paris France, October 27-31, 2013.
- R. M. Bergmann and J. L. Vujic (UCB), “2D Mono-Energetic Monte Carlo Transport and 3D Ray Tracing on a GPU,” Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo (SNA+M&C 2013), Paris France, October 27-31, 2013.
- R. M. Bergmann and J. L. Vujic (UCB), “Monte Carlo neutron Transport on GPUs,” Proceedings of the 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering – ICONE22, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7 – 11, 2014.
September 2012 – August 2013 Publications:
- E. Suzuki, B. Goldblum and J. Vujic (UCB), Building a Foundation for the Future of Nuclear Security, Federation of American Scientists Public Interest Report, Volume 66, August 15, 2013.
- K. J. Thomas et al., “Low Background Counting at the LBNL Low Background Facility”, Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques, Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Assergi, Italy, April, 2013, AIP Conf. Proc. 1549 p. 20-25
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