The Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP) presents Paul Koehler, of Los Alamos National Laboratory, on “Low-Energy Nuclear Science at LANSCE” on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. in Edwards Accelerator Lab, Roger W. Finlay Conference Room.
Paul Koehler
Abstract: The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) is a collection of five facilities driven by an 800-MeV proton linear accelerator. I will describe two of these facilities operated by Group P-27 and the nuclear-science research being pursued at them. Science pursued by our group is dominated by topics of interest to our Defense-Program sponsors, but we also do research in nuclear astrophysics and basic nuclear physics. Research at the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) facility currently is centered around fission studies, but there are also experiments on (n,z) cross sections, in neutron imaging, and for accelerated testing of electronics. Neutron-capture studies dominate the nuclear research at the Manuel Lujan Neutron Science Center (MLNSC, or Lujan Center), which also houses beam lines for materials-science research and neutron imaging.
After giving an overview of these two facilities and the nuclear-science research, I will end my talk with a brief description of a very recent science result from an instrument under development at the Lujan Center which is closely related to research at Ohio University.
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