Nuclear Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology

Project Highlights

 
FY2021

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
Constraining the Habitability of Mars When Water Flowed on Its Surface 20-LW-008 William Cassata Lab-Wide Final
Investigating the Site of the Weak Rapid Neutron Capture Process 19-ERD-036 Wei Jia Ong Exploratory Research Final
Using Isotope Probing of Microbe-to-Microbe Interactions to Determine the Fate of Carbon and Impacts on Climate Change 19-LW-044 Ty Samo Lab-Wide Final
Microresonators for Compact Optical Sensors 19-ERD-002 Tiziana Bond Exploratory Research Final
A Search for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter 20-LW-006 Stephan Friedrich Lab-Wide Continuing
How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process? 21-LW-032 Richard Hughes Lab-Wide Continuing
Utilizing Radioactive Isotopes Harvested at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams for Neutron-Reaction Measurements 20-FS-024 Richard Hughes Feasibility Study Final
The Incredible Shrinking Proton 21-LW-034 Ramona Vogt Lab-Wide Continuing
Two Nucleon Interactions and Their Effect on the Visible Universe and the Dark Universe 20-LW-001 Pavlos Vranas Lab-Wide Final
Fission with Exotic Nuclei 21-ERD-001 Nicolas Schunck Exploratory Research Continuing
The Nuclear Science of Asteroid 16 Psyche 20-ERD-039 Morgan Burks Exploratory Research Continuing
Proliferation of Interstellar Plutonium into the Solar System 19-LW-033 Michael Savina Lab-Wide Final
The Next Breakthroughs in Neutrino Physics 18-ERD-028 Michael Heffner 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
Identifying the Influence of Environmental Effects on Post-Detonation Chemistry and Debris Formation 20-SI-006 Kimberly Knight Strategic Initiative Continuing
Fission-Product Decay Studies at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Decay Station 21-FS-011 Karolina Kolos Feasibility Study Final
Ultrahigh-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Using Cyclotron Radiation Emission 20-LW-056 Kareem Kazkaz Lab-Wide Final
Nuclear Reaction Theory for Astrophysics and Laboratory Applications 19-ERD-017 Jutta Escher Exploratory Research Final
Using Moderately Volatile Elements to Understand the Origin of the Earth-Moon System 19-LW-027 Josh Wimpenny Lab-Wide Final
Nuclear Analytics: Enabling New Multimodal Approaches to Nuclear Threat Detection 20-ERD-045 Jonathan Dreyer Exploratory Research Continuing