Nuclear Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology

Project Highlights

 
FY2021

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
A Search for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter 20-LW-006 Stephan Friedrich Lab-Wide Continuing
Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions 20-ERD-001 Gregory Brennecka Exploratory Research Continuing
Beta Decay at the Limits of Nuclear Stability: Integrating Ab Initio Calculations and Kinematically Complete Measurements 19-ERD-011 Aaron Gallant Exploratory Research Final
Constraining the Habitability of Mars When Water Flowed on Its Surface 20-LW-008 William Cassata Lab-Wide Final
Constraining the Origin of Earth’s Water with Isotope Tracers in Astromaterials 19-LW-046 Erik Oerter Lab-Wide Final
Cosmogenic Tracers to Reveal the Sensitivity of Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems to Changing Climate 21-LW-071 Amanda Deinhart Lab-Wide Continuing
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust 20-ERD-030 Brett Isselhardt Exploratory Research Continuing
Development of Novel Ligand-Based Systems to Study the Chemical Properties of the Transactinides 19-ERD-003 John Despotopulos Exploratory Research Final
Earth’s Leaky Core: Identifying Signatures of Core Materials in the Lithosphere 21-LW-046 Jan Render Lab-Wide Continuing
Elusive Actinium: A First Glimpse into the Coordination Chemistry of Element 89 20-LW-017 Gauthier Deblonde Lab-Wide Final
Fission with Exotic Nuclei 21-ERD-001 Nicolas Schunck Exploratory Research Continuing
Fission-Product Decay Studies at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Decay Station 21-FS-011 Karolina Kolos Feasibility Study Final
How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process? 21-LW-032 Richard Hughes Lab-Wide Continuing
Identifying the Influence of Environmental Effects on Post-Detonation Chemistry and Debris Formation 20-SI-006 Kimberly Knight Strategic Initiative Continuing
Investigating the Site of the Weak Rapid Neutron Capture Process 19-ERD-036 Wei Jia Ong Exploratory Research Final
Microresonators for Compact Optical Sensors 19-ERD-002 Tiziana Bond Exploratory Research Final
Nuclear Analytics: Enabling New Multimodal Approaches to Nuclear Threat Detection 20-ERD-045 Jonathan Dreyer Exploratory Research Continuing
Nuclear Reaction Theory for Astrophysics and Laboratory Applications 19-ERD-017 Jutta Escher Exploratory Research Final
Nuclear Reaction Theory in the Precision Era: Probing New Physics in the Early Universe 20-LW-046 Konstantinos Kravvaris Lab-Wide Final
Probing the Structure of a Perfect Liquid Using Jets and Machine Learning 20-ERD-041 Aaron Angerami Exploratory Research Continuing