Prof. Bob Svoboda Receives 2024 APS DPF Instrumentation Award

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NSSC Faculty, Prof. Bob Svoboda (UCD), has been selected to receive the 2024 APS DPF Instrumentation Award for his work on developing neutrons as a precision calibration source for Super-Kamiokande and for DUNE. He worked to develop a submersible neutron generator for Super-K that took the absolute energy calibration from 4% to 0.7%, allowing precision measurements of the solar neutrino spectrum. For DUNE, he also discovered that it was possible to shoot neutrons deep into liquid argon for calibrations due to a weird interference feature in the cross section at 57 keV. This feature was confirmed in an experiment done at LANL by Prof. Svoboda, Prof. Emilija Pantic, and Prof. Mike Mulhearn.

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