2018 LANSCE User Group Meeting
November 5 - 6, 2018
Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
November 7, 2018
LANSCE Facility Tour, Los Alamos, New Mexico*
Contact
- LANSCE User Office
- (505) 667-6797
The LANSCE Facility continues to carryout a critical mission for the Nation and a leading program of fundamental research.
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) provides intense sources of neutrons and protons to support Los Alamos National Laboratory’s national security science mission. LANSCE is a NNSA designated national user facility and our user community is a critical component of LANSCE. Research performed by users includes basic research that probes the fundamental laws of physics, applied nuclear science, the characterization of material properties, and a neutron irradiation capability that supports an industrial user base. In addition, LANSCE is a major supplier of medical isotopes and radionuclides for nuclear research.
This meeting of the LANSCE User Group is an opportunity to discuss your research with the broader user community and for LANSCE management to gather input on future capability enhancements that will benefit the user community. Please join us in Santa Fe to share your science and provide us with the feedback we need to grow our capabilities.
Chair, Gus Sinnis (LANL)
Agenda
Day 1 - Monday, November 5th, 2018 |
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| 8:00–9:00am | Working Breakfast Dr. Gus Sinnis - Opening Remarks and Agenda Review |
| 9:00–9:30am | Dr. Gus Sinnis – Los Alamos National Laboratory LANSCE and LANSCE Futures |
| Nuclear Energy Session Chair: Dr. Sven Vogel – Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 9:30–9:50am | Prof. Maria Okuniewski – Purdue University Where we have been and where we could go with LANSCE based research at Purdue |
| 9:50–10:10am | Prof. Raluca Scarlat – University of Wisconsin-Madison What LANSCE could do to advance Molten Salt Reactors |
| 10:10–10:40am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40–11:00am | Prof. Peter Hosemann – University of California Berkeley Opportunities at NSUF for nuclear energy R&D |
| 11:00–11:20am | Dr. Adrian Losko – Los Alamos National Laboratory Isotope Densitometry using Energy-Resolved Neutron Imaging |
| Stockpile/Applied Science: Materials Science Session Chair: Dr. Bjorn Clausen – Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 11:20–11:40am | Prof. Cev Noyan - Columbia University Neutron Diffraction Analysis of the Eigenstrain Method |
| 11:40-12:50pm | Lunch (not provided) |
| 1:00–1:20pm | Dr. Julian Chen – Los Alamos National Laboratory Biology Futures at Lujan Center |
| 1:20-1:40pm | Dr. Rod McCabe – Los Alamos National Laboratory Spatially dependent textures of an α-U hemisphere |
| 1:40-2:00pm | Dr. Kyle Ramos – Los Alamos National Laboratory In situ phase contrast imaging of spall and cracking – complementary use of X-rays and Neutrons |
| 2:00-2:20pm | Dr. Darby Luscher – Los Alamos National Laboratory Microstructure Characterization of TATB |
| 2:20-2:40pm | Dr. Kyle Johnson – Sandia National Laboratory Coupled Numerical Prediction and Experimental Measurement of Residual Stresses in Additively Manufactured Parts |
| 2:40-3:00pm | Dr. Levi Neukirch – Los Alamos National Laboratory New Developments and Results at Proton Radiography |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Coffee Break |
| Stockpile/Applied Science: Nuclear Science Session Chair: Dr. Eric Pitcher – Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 3:30–4:00pm | Dr. Eva Birnbaum, Dr. Etienne Vermeulen – Los Alamos National Laboratory Isotope Production Facility Capabilities and Nuclear Physics Targetry |
| 4:00–4:20pm | Dr. Andrew Voyles – University of California Berkeley Isotope Production Activities at LANSCE-IPF: Development of a new Nb(p,x)90Mo Monitor Reaction and La(p,x) Production Cross-Section Measurements |
| 4:20–4:40pm | Prof. Ben Crider – Mississippi State University Neutron capture cross section measurements of stable Cd isotopes relevant to safeguards applications |
| 4:40–5:00pm | Prof. Marian Jandel – UMass Lowell Revealing fission and capture properties at DANCE |
| Poster Session | |
| 5:00-6:30pm | |
| Dinner | |
| 6:30pm | Dr. Tom Williamson - New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Preliminary results of Neutron CT for Paleontology at LANSCE |
Day 2 - Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 |
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| 8:00–9:00am | Working Breakfast Opening Remarks and Poster Presentation Information |
| Global Security Science Session Chair: Dr. Ann Junghans – Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 9:00–9:20am | Dr. Fredrik Tovesson – NNSA Overview of the NNSA Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D (NA-22) |
| 9:20–9:40am | Laura Dominik – Honeywell Corporation Testing Avionics Equipment for Atmospheric Radiation Effects |
| 9:40–10:00am | Dr. Drew Onken – Wake Forest University Neutron Diffraction and Imaging to Examine Crystal Growth for Radiation Detectors |
| 10:00–10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–10:50am | Dr. Ren-Yuan Zhu – California Institute of Technology Ultrafast Radiation Hard Inorganic Scintillators for Future HEP Experiments |
| 10:10–11:10am | Dr. Michelle Espy– Los Alamos National Laboratory Non-destructive testing with X-rays and Neutrons |
| 11:10–11:30am | Dr. Jeffrey George – Los Alamos National Laboratory Proton SEE Testing |
| 11:30-11:50am | Dr. Paul Koehler - Los Alamos National Laboratory An Opportunity to Solve Important, Long-Standing Problems in Radiochemical Diagnostics, Nuclear Forensics, and Nuclear Astrophysics by Combining DICER, IPF, and the New 1L Target |
| 11:50–1:00pm | Lunch @ The Hilton Dr. Stephen Milton – Los Alamos National Laboratory LANSCE Accelerator – Status and Future Plans |
| Fundamental Science Session Chair: Prof. Sally Seidel – University of New Mexico |
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| 1:00–1:20pm | Dr. Martin Hoeferkamp – University of New Mexico What LANSCE Makes Possible: Novel Radiation-Hard Detectors for LHC Discoveries |
| 1:20-1:40pm | Dr. Steve Clayton – Los Alamos National Laboratory Neutron Lifetime Experiments at LANSCE |
| 1:40-2:00pm | Prof. Robert Cooper – New Mexico State University CAPTAIN-Mills: A New Initiative to Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the Lujan Center |
| 2:00-2:20pm | Danielle Schaper – University of Kentucky A Precision Measurement of the Parity Violation Present in the 0.734 eV p-wave Resonance in 139La in Preparation for the NOPTREX Time Reversal Experiment |
| 2:20-2:40pm | Dr. Sven Vogel - Los Alamos National Laboratory (for Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez – Harvard University) Characterization of the World's Finest Gold at LANL |
| 2:40-3:00pm | Dr. Takeyasu Ito – Los Alamos National Laboratory A new experiment to search for the neutron’s electric dipole moment at LANSCE |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Coffee Break |
| Panel Discussion | |
| 3:30-4:30pm | Moderator: Dr. Gus Sinnis – Los Alamos National Laboratory Future Capabilities and Strategy Dr. Eva Birnbaum – Los Alamos National Labortory Prof. Maria Okuniewski – Purdue University Dr. Norbert Seifert – Intel Corp. |
| Poster Session |
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| 4:30-6:00pm | |
Day 3 - Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 |
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| 7:30–7:45am | Breakfast to Go |
| 8:00am | Departure for Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 9:00–11:00am | LANSCE Facility Tour |
Poster Presentations |
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| Nicholas Bachus Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Neutron diffraction residual stress study of additively manufactured 304L stainless steel thin wall cylindrical samples featuring a notch |
| Kevin Bennett Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Nickel-56 Production and Separation to Measure the (n,p) Cross Section |
| Christopher Biwer Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Developing automation and data exploration capabilities for diffraction analysis |
| Jinesh Dahal Colorado School of Mines |
Investigating Evolution of Martensite Volume Fraction with Neutron Diffraction and High Energy Diffraction Microscopy (HEDM) experiments during Biaxial Loading of NiTiNOL |
| Tom Fairbanks, Adam Watkins, Claira Safi, and Magdalena Dale Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Compendium of Recent Neutron testing of Electronic Parts at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Keegan Kelly Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Recent Advancements in Chi-Nu Prompt Fission Neutron Spectrum Measurements |
| Lance Kingsbury, Jay Lin University of California, Berkeley |
Radioactive Material Handling Mechanism (RaMHaM) for LANSCE |
| Izabela Kruk Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Studies of actinides with neutron reflectometry |
| Hao Lu Indiana University |
Measurements of Parity-Odd Asymmetries of 81Br and Other Heavy Nuclei |
| Ellen O'Brien Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Two-Way Multi-Physics Coupling for Modeling High Power RbCl Isotope Production Targets |
| Daniel Savage Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Developing automation and data exploration capabilities for diffraction analysis |
| Sanna Sevanto Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Measuring root and flower water uptake with neutron radiography |
| Maria Strantza Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Using Diffraction to Probe Additively Manufactured Materials Over a Range of Complexity |
| Ke-Xun Sun University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
MCNP Modeling of Thermal Neutron Fluence at LANSCE FP5 Beanline Front End Using UNLV Cherry Creek Super Computer |
| Ke-Xun Sun University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
Photoluminescence and Ultrafast Transient Absorption Investigation of HVPE-Grown GaN Substrates Irradiated by Ultrahigh Fluence Fast Neutrons at LANSCE East Port Beamline |
| Hector Valencia, Ke-Xun Sun University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
GaN Scintillation Experiments with Fast Neutrons at LANSCE 30L Beamline |
| Hector Valencia, Ke-Xun Sun University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
Fast Neutron Radiation Hardness Experiments of GaN Devices at LANSCE 60R Outdoor High Fluence Section |
| Mario Valles University of Nevada Las Vegas Montenegro |
Radiation Hardness Experiments of GaN Devices at LANSCE 60R Outdoor High Fluence Section |
| Tashiema Wilson University of South Carolina |
Temperature-Dependent Crystal Structure of U3Si2 by High-Temperature Neutron Diffraction |
| Lukas Zavorka Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Physics design of the next-generation spallation neutron target-moderator-reflector-shield assembly MARK-IV |
*If you are planning to participate in the LANSCE Facility Tour, please contact Nina Roelofs as soon as possible to submit your LANL badge request and Foreign Visit Request for non-US citizens.
