NSSC3 Peer-Reviewed Publications
October 2024 – September 2025 (NSSC3 Year 4):
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Oleksii Zivenko, Noah Walton, Cole Fritsch, et al., “Validating Automated Resonance Evaluation with Synthetic Data,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 212. December 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306454924007448
- Stand, L., Pestovich, K., Joshi, K., Wen, X., Hayward, J., Tratsiak, Y., Rutstrom, D., Inniss, M., Melcher, C., Glodo, J., Van Loef, E., Zhuravleva, M., “Enhanced Neutron and Gamma-Ray Detection via 6-Li Substitution in Undoped and Tl-Doped Zero-Dimensional Perovskite Cs3Cu2I5 Scintillators.” ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Volume 7 (03/2025).
October 2023 – September 2024 (NSSC3 Year 3):
- Daniel Rutstrom, Haixuan Xu, Chuck Melcher, Mariya Zhuravleva, et al., “New ultrafast scintillators with core valence luminescence: Cs2MgCl4 and Cs3MgCl5” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 12, April 2024. link: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC00877D
- E. van Loef, K. Pestovich, M. Innis, J. Schott, L. Soundara Pandian, L. Stand, M. Zhuravleva, C. L. Melcher, “Crystal growth, physical and optical properties of TlSr2Cl5 and TlSr2Br5”, Journal of Crystal Growth 639 (2024) 127743.
- Emma Houston, Sandra Bogetic, Tomi Akindele, et al., “Neutrino-detector design for safeguarding small modular reactors,” Physical Review Applied, Volume 21(6), 064061.
October 2022 – September 2023 (NSSC3 Year 2):
- Benjamin S. Jordan, Jason D. Readle, Jeffrey R. Cooper, Matthew Cook, Jason P. Hayward, J. Daniel Hartman, Dean Forrest, Howard L. Hall, “Assay measurement of gaseous UF6 using femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in the 424.4 nm spectral region,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 181, February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2022.109523
- Walton, N.,. Brown, J., Fritsch, W., Brown, D., Nobre, G., Sobes, V., “Methodology for physics-informed generation of synthetic neutron time-of-flight measurement data.” ArXiv Preprint, arXiv:2303.09698
- Williams, A., Walton, N., Maryanski, A., Sobes,V., Bogetic, S., Hines, W. Stochastic gradient descent for optimization for nuclear systems, Scientific Reports, 13, (May 23). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32112-7
- Corey Ahl, Jason Hayward, Eric Lukosi, “Development of a Diamond Double-Sided Strip Detector for Alpha Tagging in Associated Particle Imaging,” Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, 1057, 2023. Web. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168709
- Pestovich, Kimberly S., Luis Stand, Edgar Van Loef, Charles L. Melcher, and Mariya Zhuravleva. “Crystal Growth & Characterization of Europium-Doped Rubidium Calcium Bromide Scintillators.” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 1370-1377, July 2023, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2023.3280733.
- Z. Wang, C. Dujardin, M. S. Freeman, A. E. Gehring, J. F. Hunter, P. Lecoq, W. Liu, C. L. Melcher, C. L. Morris, M. Nikl, G. Pilania, R. Pokharel, D. G. Robertson, D. J. Rutstrom, S. K. Sjue, A. S. Tremsin, S. A. Watson, B. W. Wiggins, N. M. Winch, M. Zhuravleva, “Needs, trends, and advances in scintillators for radiographic imaging and tomography”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 1244-1280, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2023.3290826
- C.X Young, C.A. Browning, R.J. Thurber, M.R. Smalley, M.J. Liesenfelt, J.P. Hayward, N. McFarlane, M.P. Cooper, Jeff R. Preston, “Scalable Detector Design for a High-Resolution Fast-Neutron Radiography Panel,” Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, published online in Sep. 2023. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-023-00999-x.
October 2021 – September 2022 (NSSC3 Year 1):
- J. Lee, R. J. Cooper, T. H. Joshi, K. J. Bilton, D. M. Raji, M. S. Bandstra, and K. Vetter, “An Ensemble Approach to Computationally Efficient Radiological Anomaly Detection and Isotope Identification” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2022.3198906.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9861332 - D. Rutstrom, L. Stand, C. Delzer, M. Kapusta, J. Glodo, E.van Loef, K. Shah, M. Koschan, C. L. Melcher, M. Zhuravleva, “Improved Light Yield and Growth of Large-volume Ultrafast Single Crystal Scintillators Cs2ZnCl4 and Cs3ZnCl5”, Optical Materials, Volume 133, November 2022.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925346722009466 - Jordan, Benjamin S. and Readle, Jason D. and Cooper, Jeffrey R. and Cook, Matthew and Hayward, Jason P. and Hartman, J. Daniel and Forrest, Dean and Hall, Howard L., Assay Measurement of Gaseous Uf6 Using Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy in the 424.4 Nm Spectral Region,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4145220
NSSC2 Peer-Reviewed Publications
October 2020 – September 2021 (NSSC2 Year 5):
- Smith, J. P., Sickafus, K. E., Rawn, C.J., Delzer, C. J., Chen, C. F., Melcher, C., Thermal Processing Conditions for the Synthesis of Near Theoretical Density Li5La3Ta2O12 Ceramics for Ceramic Dual-Mode Detectors, Journal of Alloys and Compounds. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.159714
- Hadiah Fattal, Tielyr D. Creason, Cordell J. Delzer, Aymen Yangui, Jason P. Hayward, Bradley J. Ross, Mao-Hua Du, Daniel T. Glatzhofer, and Bayrammurad Saparov., “Zero-Dimensional Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Indium Bromide with Blue Emission.” Inorganic Chemistry, Jan 2021.
- Montague, M.E.; Delzer, C.; Wen, X.; Goetz, K.C.; Shedlock, D.; Hayward, J.P. “Radiation Hardness Characterization of LKH-5 Scintillating Glass.”, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A, 982 (12/2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164551
- Grad. Andrew W. Decker, N. J. Cherepy, Saphon Hok, Jason P. Hayward, “Simulated X-ray Radiographic Performance of a Bismuth-Loaded PVT Array”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 10.1109/TNS.2020.3029498, IEEE.
- Daniel Rutstrom, Luis Stand , Bogdan Dryzhakov , Merry Koschan , Charles L. Melcher , Mariya Zhuravleva, “Crystal Growth and Scintillation Properties of New Ytterbium-Activated Scintillators Cs4CaI6:Yb and Cs4SrI6:Yb,” Optical Materials, accepted October, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110536
- L. Stand, M. Koschan, M.-H. Du, C. Melcher, E. van Loef, K. Shah, M. Zhuravleva, “Crystal growth and scintillation properties of pure and Tl-doped Cs3Cu2I5”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 991 (2021) 164963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164963
- Barta, J., Pestovich, K., Valdez, J., Wiggins, B., Richards, C., Smith, E., Clayton, J., Smalley, D., McClellan, K., “Compositional screening of Ce-doped (Gd,Lu,Y)3(Al,Ga)5O12 ceramics prepared by quenching from melt and their luminescence properties.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 889 (1/2022). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925838821030966
October 2019 – September 2020 (NSSC2 Year 4):
- Stand, L., Zhuravleva, M., Johnson J., Koschan, M., Loyd, M., Wu, Y., Lukosi, E., Melcher, C., “Crystal growth and characterization of high performance KSr2BrxI5−x:Eu scintillators.”, Journal of Crystal Growth, 526, 2019.
- Rutstrom D., Stand L., Koschan M., Melcher C., Zhuravleva M. “Europium concentration effects on the scintillation properties of Cs4SrI6:Eu and Cs4CaI6:Eu single crystals for use in gamma spectroscopy” Journal: Journal of Luminescence. Volume/Year: Volume 216 December 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.116740
- Delzer, Cordell & Zhuravleva, Mariya & Stand, Luis & Melcher, C. & Cherepy, Nerine & Payne, S. & Sanner, R. & Hayward, Jason. (2019). “Observations Regarding Inclusions in the Growth of Cs2HfCl6 Single Crystal Scintillators.” Journal of Crystal Growth. 531. 125336. 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2019.125336.
- Parigger, Christian & Helstern, Christopher & Jordan, Ben & Surmick, David & Splinter, Robert. (2020). Laser-Plasma Spatiotemporal Cyanide Spectroscopy and Applications. Molecules. 25. 615. 10.3390/molecules25030615.
- Ben Jordan: Parigger, Christian, Helstern, Christopher; Jordan, Benjamin; Surmick, David; Splinter, Robert; “Laser-plasma spectroscopy of hydroxyl with applications”” MDPI
- Stand, L., Zhuravleva, M., Johnson, J., Koschan, M., Lukosi, E., Melcher, C., “Gamma-ray spectroscopic characterization of long, rapidly-grown KSr2I5:Eu crystals”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 962, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163700
- A.S. Moore, L.G. Worrall, C. Britton, S. Croft, K. Dayman, M.N. Ericson, R.D. McElroy, A.D. Nicholson, G. Nutter, R.B Warmack, J.P. Hayward. “Development and evaluation of a list mode neutron coincidence collar for spatial response measurements of fresh fuel assemblies” Nuclear Inst. and Method in Physics Research, A. (June 2020)
- Michael E. Moore; Cordell Delzer; Jeremy Watts; Jason P. Hayward; Brianna L. Musicó; Chen Xu; Robyn M. Collette; Philip D. Rack; Yanwen Zhang; Charles L. Melcher; Seth McConchie. Studying the effects of thermally diffusing Ce into the surface of YAlO3 for associated particle imaging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, ISSN: 0168-583X, Vol: 473, Page: 55-61
- Shuangliang Cheng, Rachel E. Hunneke, Mengkun Tian, Eric Lukosi, Mariya Zhuravleva, Charles L. Melcher and Yuntao Wu. Self-assembled natLiCl–CeCl3 directionally solidified eutectics for thermal neutron detection. CrystEngComm. Issue 19, 2020.
- Grad. A. W. Decker and J. P. Hayward “Evaluation of a novel bismuth-loaded plastic array for X-ray and neutron radiography”, Proc. SPIE 11494, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXII, 1149416 (20 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567343
- M.C. Tweardy, S. McConchie, J.P. Hayward, “Quantifying the determinants of leakage multiplication for large uranium objects using Monte Carlo simulations,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Vol. 954, Feb. 2020, 161684
October 2018 – September 2019 (NSSC2 Year 3):
- Caleb Redding, Alexandra Hackett, Mitchell Laubach, Rui Feng, Patrick Feng, Chuck Hurlbut, Peter Liaw, Jason P. Hayward. “Tensile, flexural, and light output measurements of selected organic scintillators for evaluation of their potential as structural materials.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2018.
- Simone, A., Croft S., Britton C., McElroy R., Ericson M., and Hayward J., “Investigating the non-ideal behavior of the Amptek A111 charge sensitive preamplifier & discriminator board–3He proportional counter combination used in common safeguards neutron coincidence counters.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment (10/2018).
- Simone, A., Croft, S., Hayward, J., and Worrall, L., “Using the JCC-71 neutron coincidence collar as a benchmark for detector characterization with PTR-32 list mode data acquisition.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 908 (11/2018): 24-34
- Moore, A.S. & Croft, S. & Mcelroy, Robert & Hayward, Jason. (2019). Methods for diagnosing and quantifying double pulsing in a Uranium Neutron Collar system using shift register logic. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 941. 162333.
October 2017 – September 2018 (NSSC2 Year 2):
- Michael B. Shattan, Dorothy J. Miller, Matthew T. Cook, Ashley C. Stowe, John D. Auxier, Christian Parigger, and Howard L. Hall, “Detection of uranyl fluoride and sand surface contamination on metal substrates by hand-held laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy”, Applied Optics, Vol. 56, Issue 36. (2017)
- D. Rutstrom, R. Collette, L. Stand, M. Loyd, Y. Wu, M. Koschan, C. Melcher, M. Zhuravleva, “Investigating new activators for small-bandgap LaX3 (X = Br, I) scintillators”, Journal of Crystal Growth 483 (2018) 251-257.
- Sarwar, R., V. Astromskas, C. H. Zimmerman, G. Nutter, A. T. Simone, S. Croft, and M. J. Joyce, “An event-triggered coincidence algorithm for fast-neutron multiplicity assay corrected for cross-talk and photon breakthrough,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 903, 21 September 2018, Pages 152-161.