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  1. Hyperstoichiometric Uranium Dioxides: Rapid Synthesis and Irradiation-Induced Structural Changes
    J.M. Roah, K.V. Manukyan, A. Majumdar, S. Dede, A.G. Oliver, P.C. Burns, and A. Aprahamian
    Inorg. Chem. 60, 24, 18938–18949 (December 2021)

  2. ARUNA: Advancing Science, Educating Scientists, Delivering for Society
    A. Aprahamian, C.R. Brune, A. Champagne, M.A. Famiano, A. Garcia, C.R. Howell, R.V.F. Janssens, Z. Meisel, A. Rogers, I. Wiedenhöver, M. Wiescher, S.W. Yates, and S.J. Yennello
    Nuclear Physics News, 31, 4, 4-14 (December 2021)

  3. r-Process Radioisotopes from Near-Earth Supernovae and Kilonovae
    X. Wang, A. Clark, J. Ellis, A.F. Ertel, B.D. Fields, B.J. Fry, Z. Liu, J.A. Miller, and R. Surman
    ApJ 923, 219 (December 2021)

  4. Disposition of Fluorine on New Firefighter Turnout Gear
    D.J. Muensterman, I.A. Titaley, G.F. Peaslee, L.D. Minc, L. Cahuas, A.E. Rodowa, Y. Horiuchi, S. Yamane, T.N.J. Fouquet, J.C. Kissel, C.C. Carignan, and J.A. Field
    Environ. Sci. Technol. 56  974–983 (December 2021)

  5. Reconstruction of β-delayed neutron energy spectra from recoil-ion spectroscopy of trapped ions
    G.L. Wilson, T.S. Nagel, S.T. Marley, N.D. Scielzo, A. Aprahamian, J.A. Clark, A. Czeszumska, G. Savard, K. Siegl, B.S. Wang
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 1017, 165806 (November 2021)

  6. Hydroxyl radical yields in the heavy ion radiolysis of water
    M. Smith, S.M. Pimblott, J.A. LaVerne
    Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 188, 109629 (November 2021)

  7. Screening for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water with Particle Induced Gamma-Ray Emission Spectroscopy
    M. Tighe, Y. Jin, H.D. Whitehead, K. Hayes, M. Lieberman, M. Pannu, M.H. Plumlee, and G.F. Peaslee
    ACS ES&T Water, 1, 2477-2484 (November 2021)

  8. First direct measurement of 59Cu(p,α)56Ni: A step towards constraining the Ni-Cu cycle in the cosmos
    J.S. Randhawa, R. Kanungo, J. Refsgaard, P. Mohr, T. Ahn, M. Alcorta, C. Andreoiu, S.S. Bhattacharjee, B. Davids, G. Christian, A.A. Chen, R. Coleman, P.E. Garrett, G.F. Grinyer, E. Gyabeng Fuakye, G. Hackman, J. Hollett, R. Jain, K. Kapoor, R. Krücken, A. Laffoley, A. Lennarz, J. Liang, Z. Meisel, B. Nikhil, A. Psaltis, A. Radich, M. Rocchini, N. Saei, M. Saxena, M. Singh, C. Svensson, P. Subramaniam, A. Talebitaher, S. Upadhyayula, C. Waterfield, J. Williams, and M. Williams
    Phys. Rev. C 104, L042801 (October 2021) (see highlight)

  9. Combustion in the ZrF4-Mg-Si and ZrF4-Al-Si systems for preparation of zirconium silicides
    M.K. Zakaryan, S.L. Kharatyan, A. Aprahamian, and K.V. Manukyan
    Combustioin and Flame 232, 111514 (October 2021)

  10. Vibrating Wire Station for Horizontal and Vertical Profiling of Proton Beam of Cyclotron C18 in Air
    M.A. Aginian, A. Aprahamian, S.G. Arutunian, G.S. Harutyunyan, E.G. Lazareva, L.M. Lazarev, A.V. Margaryan, L.A. Shahinyan, R.K. Dallakyan, A.A. Manukyan, V.K. Elbakyan, G.A. Hovhannisyan, G.E. Elbakyan, M. Chung, and D. Kwak
    Journal of Contemporary Physics-Armenian Academy of Sciences 56, 4, 297-308 (October 2021)

  11. Experimental study of the nature of the 1− and 2− excited states in 10Be using the 11Be(p,d) reaction in inverse kinematics
    K. Kuhn, F. Sarazin, F. M. Nunes, M.A.G. Alvarez, C. Andreoiu, D.W. Bardayan, P.C. Bender, J.C. Blackmon, M.J.G. Borge, R. Braid, B.A. Brown, W.N. Catford, C.Aa. Diget, A. DiPietro, T.E. Drake, P. Figuera, A.B. Garnsworthy, J. Gómez-Camacho, G. Hackman, U. Hager, S.V. Ilyushkin, E. Nácher, P.D. O'Malley, A. Perea, V. Pesudo, S.T. Pittman, D. Smalley, C.E. Svensson, O. Tengblad, P. Thompson, C. Unsworth, and Z.M. Wang
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 044601 (October 2021)

  12. MuSIC@Indiana: An effective tool for accurate measurement of fusion with low-intensity radioactive beams
    J.E. Johnstone, R. Kumar, S. Hudan, V. Singh, R.T. deSouza, J. Allen, D.W. Barddayan, D. Blankstein, C. Bommershine, S. Carmichael, S. Coil, S.L. Henderson, and P.D. O'Malley
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 1014,165697 (October 2021) (see highlight)

  13. Corrigendum to “Two-phonon wobbling in 135Pr” [Phys. Lett. B 792 (2019) 170–174]
    N. Sensharma, U, Garg, S. Zhu, A.D. Ayangeakaa, S. Franuendorf, W. Li, G.H. Bhat, J.A. Sheikh, M.P. Carpenter, Q.B. Chen, J.L. Cozzi, S.S. Ghugre, Y.K. Gupta, D.J. Hartley, K.B. Howard, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T.C. McMaken, R. Palit, J. Sethi, D. Seweryniak, and R.P. Singh
    Physics Letters B 820, 136556 (September 2021)

  14. A heavy-ion production channel of 149Tb via 63Cu bombardment of 89Y
    J.T. Wilkinson, K.E. Barrett, S.J. Ferran, S.R. McGuinness, L.A. McIntosh, M. McCarthy, S.J. Yennello, J.W. Engle, S.E. Lapi, and G.F. Peaslee
     Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 178, 109935 (September 2021)

  15. The large bat Helitron DNA transposase forms a compact monomeric assembly that buries and protects its covalently bound 5′-transposon end
    D. Kosek, I. Grabundzija, H. Lei, I. Bilic, H. Wang, Y. Jin, G.F. Peaslee, A.B. Hickman, and F. Dyda
    Mol. Cell. 81 1-16 (August 2021)

  16. Direct Measurement of the Astrophysical 19F(p,αγ)16O Reaction in the Deepest Operational Underground Laboratory
    L.Y. Zhang, J. Su, J.J. He, M. Wiescher, R.J. deBoer, D. Kahl, Y.J. Chen, X.Y. Li, J.G. Wang, L. Zhang, F.Q. Cao, H. Zhang, Z.C. Zhang, T.Y. Jiao, Y. D. Sheng, L.H. Wang, L.Y. Song, X.Z. Jiang, Z.M. Li, E.T. Li, S. Wang, G. Lian, Z.H. Li, X.D. Tang, H.W. Zhao, L.T. Sun, Q. Wu, J.Q. Li, B.Q. Cui, L.H. Chen, R.G. Ma, B. Guo, S.W. Xu, J.Y. Li, N.C. Qi, W.L. Sun, X.Y. Guo, P. Zhang, Y.H. Chen, Y. Zhou, J.F. Zhou, J.R. He, C.S. Shang, M.C. Li, X.H. Zhou, Y.H. Zhang, F.S. Zhang, Z.G. Hu, H.S. Xu, J.P. Chen, and W.P. Liu
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152702 (October 2021)

  17. Open Challenges to Nuclear Physics Resulting from the Neutron Star Merger
    A. Aprahamian
    Nuclear Physics News, 31, 3, 11-16 (September 2021) (see highlight)

  18. Weak Interaction Physics at TwinSol
    J.J. Kolata, M. Brodeur, T. Ahn, D. Bardayan, P. O'Malley, and J.S. Randhawa
    EPJ Web Conf. 252, 03001 (September 2021)

  19. Low-spin states in 80Ge populated in the β decay of the 80Ga 3− isomer
    S. Sekal, L. M. Fraile, R. Lică, M.J.G. Borge, W.B. Walters, A. Aprahamian, C. Benchouk, C. Bernards, J.A. Briz, B. Bucher, C.J. Chiara, Z. Dlouhý, I. Gheorghe, D.G. Ghiţă, P. Hoff, J. Jolie, U. Köster, W. Kurcewicz, H. Mach, N. Mărginean, R. Mărginean, Z. Meliani, B. Olaizola, V. Paziy, J.M. Régis, M. Rudigier, T. Sava, G.S. Simpson, M. Stănoiu, and L. Stroe
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 024317 (August 2021)

  20. Levels in 125Cd populated by the β decay of 125mAg and 125Ag
    J.C. Batchelder, C. Apgar, N.T. Brewer, C.J. Gross, R.K. Grzywacz, S. Ilyushkin, M. Madurga, K. Miernik, S.W. Padgett, S.V. Paulauskas, W.A. Peters, B.C. Rasco, K.P. Rykaczewski, D.W. Stracener, J.A. Winger, M. Wolińska-Cichocka, E.F. Zganjar, D.W. Bardayan, M.E. Howard, B. Manning, M. Matos, A.J. Mendez, D. Miller, A. Ratkiewicz, and E.H. Wang
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 024308 (August 2021)

  21. Heavy-ion production of 77Br and 76Br
    S.R. McGuinness, J.T. Wilkinson, and G.F. Peaslee
    Sci. Rep. 11, 15749 (August 2021)

  22. Low-energy resonances in the 18O(p,γ)19F reaction
    F.R. Pantaleo, A. Boeltzig, A. Best, R. Perrino, M. Aliotta, J. Balibrea-Correa, F. Barile, D. Bemmerer, C. Broggini, C.G. Bruno, R. Buompane, A. Caciolli, F. Cavanna, T. Chillery, G.F. Ciani, P. Corvisiero, L. Csedreki, T. Davinson, R.J. deBoer, R. Depalo, G. D'Erasmo, A. Di Leva, Z. Elekes, F. Ferraro, E.M. Fiore, A. Formicola, Zs. Fülöp, G. Gervino, A. Guglielmetti, C. Gustavino, Gy. Gyürky, G. Imbriani, M. Junker, I. Kochanek, M. Lugaro, E. Masha, R. Menegazzo, V. Mossa, V. Paticchio, D. Piatti, P. Prati, D. Rapagnani, L. Schiavulli, K. Stöckel, O. Straniero, T. Szücs, M.P. Takács, D. Trezzi, M. Wiescher, and S. Zavatarelli (LUNA Collaboration)
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 025802 (August 2021)

  23. Irradiation-Driven Restructuring of UO2 Thin Films: Amorphization and Crystallization
    A. Majumdar, K.V. Manukyan, S. Dede, J.M. Roach, D. Robertson, P.C. Burns, and A. Aprahamian
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 29, 35153–35164 (July 2021)

  24. First measurement of proton decay from a transfer reaction to 21Na
    M.J. Kim, K.Y. Chae, S. Ahn, D.W. Bardayan, S.M. Cha, K.A. Chipps, J.A. Cizewski, M.E. Howard, R.L. Kozub, K. Kwak, B. Manning, M. Matos, P.D. O'Malley, S.D. Pain, W.A. Peters, S.T. Pittman, A. Ratkiewicz, M.S. Smith, and S. Strauss
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 014323 (July 2021)

  25. Enhanced B(E3) strength observed in 137La
    Md. S.R. Laskar, R. Palit, E. Ideguchi, T. Inakura, S. Mishra, F. Babra, S. Bhattacharya, D. Choudhury, Biswajit Das, B. Das, P. Dey, U. Garg, A. Jain, A. Kundu, D. Kumar, D. Negi, S. Pancholi, S. Rajbanshi, and S. Sihotra
    Phys. Rev. C 104, L011301 (July 2021)

  26. Investigation of the isoscalar response of 24Mg to 6 Li scattering
    J.C. Zamora, C. Sullivan, R.G.T. Zegers, N. Aoi, L. Batail, D. Bazin, M. Carpenter, J.J. Carroll, Y.D. Fang, H. Fujita, U. Garg, G. Gey, C.J. Guess, M.N. Harakeh, T.H. Hoang, E. Hudson, N. Ichige, E. Ideguchi, A. Inoue, J. Isaak, C. Iwamoto, C. Kacir, N. Kobayashi, T. Koike, M. Kumar Raju, S. Lipschutz, M. Liu, P. von Neumann-Cosel, S. Noji, H.J. Ong, S. Péru, J. Pereira, J. Schmitt, A. Tamii, R. Titus, V. Werner, Y. Yamamoto, X. Zhou, and S. Zhu
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 014607 (July 2021)

  27. Erratum: Searching for (γ,α)/(γ,n) branching points in the γ-process path near A=100 [Phys. Rev. C 101, 015801 (2020)]
    R. Kelmar, A. Simon, O. Olivas-Gomez, P. Millican, C.S. Reingold, E. Churchman, A.M. Clark, S.L. Henderson, S.E. Kelly, D. Robertson, E. Stech, and W.P. Tan
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 019901 (July 2021)

  28. Investigation of secondary γ-ray angular distributions using the 15N(p,α1γ)12C∗ reaction
    R.J. deBoer, A. Boeltzig, K.T. Macon, S. Aguilar, O. Gomez, B. Frentz, S.L. Henderson, R. Kelmar, M. Renaud, G. Seymour, B. Vande Kolk, M. Wiescher, C.R. Brune, S.P. Burcher, K.L. Jones, J.M. Kovoor, M. Febbraro, G. Imbriani, S. Mosby, K. Smith, and R. Toomey
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 065801 (June 2021) (see highlight)

  29. Characterization and within-site variation of environmental metal concentrations around a contaminated site using a community-engaged approach
    P. Ringwald, C. Chapin, C. Iceman, M. Tighe, M. Sisk, G.F. Peaslee, J. Peller, and E.M. Wells
    Chemosphere, 272, 129915 (June 2021)

  30. Fluorinated Compounds in North American Cosmetics
    H.D. Whitehead, M. Venier, Y. Wu, E. Eastman, S. Urbanik, M.L. Diamond, A. Shalin, H. Schwartz-Narbonne, T.A. Bruton, A. Blum, Z. Wang, M. Green, M. Tighe, J.T. Wilkinson, S. McGuinness, and G.F. Peaslee
    Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. (June 2021)

  31. 19F(p,γ)20Ne and 19F(p,α)16O reaction rates and their effect on calcium production in Population III stars from hot CNO breakout
    R.J. deBoer, O. Clarkson, A.J. Couture, J. Görres, F. Herwig, I. Lombardo, P. Scholz, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 055815 (May 2021) (see highlight)

  32. Proton capture on 34S in the astrophysical energy regime of O-Ne novae
    M. Lovely, A. Lennarz, D. Connolly, M. Williams, M. Alcorta, A.A. Chen, B. Davids, N.E. Esker, C. Fry, S.A. Gillespie, R. Giri, U. Greife, A. Hussein, D. Hutcheon, J. Karpesky, L. Kroll, J. Liang, P.D. O'Malley, S. Paneru, A. Psaltis, C. Ruiz, and A.C. Shotter (DRAGON Collaboration)
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 055801 (May 2021)

  33. Examining the nuclear mass surface of Rb and Sr isotopes in the A≈104 region via precision mass measurements
    I. Mukul, C. Andreoiu, J. Bergmann, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, K.A. Dietrich, T. Dickel, I. Dillmann, E. Dunling, D. Fusco, G. Gwinner, C. Izzo, A. Jacobs, B. Kootte, Y. Lan, E. Leistenschneider, E.M. Lykiardopoulou, S.F. Paul, M.P. Reiter, J.L. Tracy, Jr., J. Dilling, and A.A. Kwiatkowski
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 044320 (April 2021)

  34. Production of 52Fe from symmetric complete fusion-evaporation reactions
    S.R. McGuinness, S.J. Ferran, J.T. Wilkinson, C. Shaun Loveless, T. Anderson, D. Blankstein, A.M. Clark, S.L. Henderson, A.D. Nelson, C.S. Reingold, M. Skulski, S.E. Lapi, and G.F. Peaslee
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B, 493, 15-18 (April 2021)

  35. Lifetime measurements of excited states in 15O
    B. Frentz, A. Aprahamian, A.M. Clark, R.J. deBoer, C. Dulal, J.D. Enright, J. Görres, S.L. Henderson, J.D. Hinnefeld, K.B. Howard, R. Kelmar, K. Lee, L. Morales, S. Moylan, Z. Rahman, W. Tan, L.E. Weghorn, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 045802 (April 2021) (see highlight)

  36. Neutron transfer studies on 25Mg and its correlation to neutron radiative capture processes
    Y. Chen, G.P.A. Berg, R.J. deBoer, J. Görres, H. Jung, A. Long, K. Seetedohnia, R. Talwar, M. Wiescher, S. Adachi, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, C. Iwamoto, B. Liu, S. Noji, H.-J. Ong, and A. Tamii
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 035809 (March 2021) (see highlight)

  37. β-decay feeding intensity distributions for 103,104mNb
    J. Gombas, P.A. DeYoung, A. Spyrou, A.C. Dombos, A. Algora, T. Baumann, B. Crider, J. Engel, T. Ginter, E. Kwan, S.N. Liddick, S. Lyons, F. Naqvi, E.M. Ney, J. Pereira, C. Prokop, W. Ong, S. Quinn, D.P. Scriven, A. Simon, and C. Sumithrarachchi
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 035803 (March 2021)

  38. Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process
    J.J. Cowan, C. Sneden, J.E. Lawler, A. Aprahamian, M. Wiescher, K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo, and F.-K. Thielemann
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 015002 (February 2021)

  39. Recent developments in the AMS system at the Nuclear Science Laboratory: Impacts on radionuclide sensitivities and current capabilities
    M. Skulski, T. Anderson, L. Callahan, A.M. Clark, A.D. Nelson, D. Robertson, E. Stech, and P. Collon
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B, 488, 30-36 (February 2021) (see highlight)

  40. Evidence of antimagnetic rotational motion in 103Pd
    A. Sharma, R. Raut, S. Muralithar, R.P. Singh, S.S. Bhattacharjee, S. Das, S. Samanta, S.S. Ghugre, R. Palit, S. Jehangir, N. Rather, G.H. Bhat, J.A. Sheikh, S.S. Tiwary, Neelam, P.V. Madhusudhana Rao, U. Garg, and S.K. Dhiman
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 02432 (February 2021)

  41. Aqueous harvesting of 88Zr at a radioactive-ion-beam facility for cross-section measurements
    J.A. Shusterman, N.D. Scielzo, E.P. Abel, H.K. Clause, N.D. Dronchi, W.D. Frey, N. Gharibyan, J.A. Hart, C.S. Loveless, S.R. McGuinness, L.T. Sutherlin, K.J. Thomas, S.E. Lapi, J.D. Robertson, M.A. Stoyer, E.B. Norman, G.F. Peaslee, G.W. Severin, and D.A. Shaughnessy
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 024614 (February 2021)

  42. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and total fluorine in fire station dust
    A.S. Young, E.H. Sparer-Fine, H.M. Pickard, E.M. Sunderland, G.F. Peaslee, and J.G. Allen
    J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (February 2021)

  43. Total absorption spectroscopy of the β decay of 101,102Zr and 109Tc
    A.C. Dombos, A. Spyrou, F. Naqvi, S.J. Quinn, S.N. Liddick, A. Algora, T. Baumann, J. Brett, B.P. Crider, P.A. DeYoung, T. Ginter, J. Gombas, S. Lyons, T. Marketin, P. Möller, W.-J. Ong, A. Palmisano, J. Pereira, C.J. Prokop, P. Sarriguren, D.P. Scriven, A. Simon, M.K. Smith, and S. Valenta
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 025810 (February 2021)

  44. A technique for the study of (p,n) reactions with unstable isotopes at energies relevant to astrophysics
    P. Gastis, G. Perdikakis, G.P.A. Berg, A.C. Dombos, A. Estrade, A. Falduto, M. Horoi, S.N. Liddick, S. Lipschutz, S. Lyons, F. Montes, A. Palmisano, J. Pereira, J.S. Randhawa, T. Redpath, M. Redshaw, J. Schmitt, J.R. Sheehan, M.K. Smith, P. Tsinatari, A.C.C. Villari, K. Wang, and R.G.T. Zegers
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 985, 164603 (January 2021)

  45. The performance of the commissioned Notre Dame multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer
    B. Liu, M. Brodeur, D.P. Burdette, J.M. Kelly, T. Kim, J. Long, P.D. O'Malley
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 985, 164679 (January 2021)

  46. First Penning trap mass measurement of 36Ca
    J. Surbrook, G. Bollen, M. Brodeur, A. Hamaker, D. Pérez-Loureiro, D. Puentes, C. Nicoloff, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, C.S. Sumithrarachchi, L.J. Sun, A.A. Valverde, A.C.C. Villari, C. Wrede, and I.T. Yandow
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 014323 (January 2021)

  47. Investigation of the alignment mechanism and loss of collectivity in 135Pm
    F.S. Babra, S. Jehangir, R. Palit, S. Biswas, B. Das, S. Rajbanshi, G.H. Bhat, J.A. Sheikh, Biswajit Das, P. Dey, U. Garg, Md. S.R. Laskar, C. Palshetkar, S. Saha, L.P. Singh, and P. Singh
    Phys. Rev. C 103, 014316 (January 2021)

  48. Exploiting Isospin Symmetry to Study the Role of Isomers in Stellar Environments
    S. Hallam, G. Lotay, A. Gade, D.T. Doherty, J. Belarge, P.C. Bender, B.A. Brown, J. Browne, W.N. Catford, B. Elman, A. Estradé, M.R. Hall, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, F. Montes, M. Moukaddam, P. O’Malley, W.-J. Ong, H. Schatz, D. Seweryniak, K. Schmidt, N.K. Timofeyuk, D. Weisshaar, and R.G.T. Zegers
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 042701 (January 2021)

  49. Side-chain fluorotelomer-based polymers in children car seats
    Y. Wu, G.Z. Miller, J. Gearhart, G. Peaslee, and M. Venier
    Environmental Pollution, 268, B, 115477 (January 2021)

  50. Nuclear clusters as the first stepping stones for the chemical evolution of the universe
    M. Wiescher, O. Clarkson, R.J. deBoer, and P. Denisenkov 
    Eur. Phys. J. A, 57:24 (January 2021)