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  1. LSTAR — An isobar separator for expanding radioactive ion beam production at the Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University
    G.P.A. Berg, D. Melconian, M. Couder, M. Brodeur, V.E. Iacob, J. Klimo, and P.D. Shidling
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1069, 169944 (December 2024)
  2. The use of second foil stripping in tandem accelerators
    T.L. Bailey, L.K. Callahan, A.M. Clark, A.D. Nelson, L. Wood, and P. Collon
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 557, 165532 (December 2024)
  3. Light response of poly(ethylene2,6-naphthalate) to neutrons
    B. Hackett, R. deBoer, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, J. Nattress, D. Bardayan, C. Boomershine, K. Brandenburg, S. Dede, J. Derkin, R. Fang, A. Fritsch, A. Gula, G. György, G. Hamad, Y. Jones-Alberty, B. Kelmar, K. Manukyan, M. Matney, J. McDonaugh, S. Molyan, P. O'Malley, S. Shahina, and N. Singh
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1069, 169900 (December 2024) (see highlight)
  4. Core excitation in 92Mo up to high spin
    V. Malik, R. Palit, P.C. Srivastava, P. Dey, D. Patel, B. Das, D. Negi, U.Garg, R.Raut, H.Goel, A. Kundu, A. Sindu, and S. Nag
    J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys 52, 025101 (December 2024)
  5. Presence of Perfluorohexanoic Acid in Fluoroelastomer Watch Bands
    A. Wicks, H.D. Whitehead, and G.F. Peaslee
    Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024 (December 2024)
  6. Low Energy Neutron-induced Charged-particle (Z) (LENZ) instrument development with a focus on pulse shape discrimination for low-energy charged particles
    H.Y. Lee, S.A. Kuvin, S.M. Mosby, CJ. Prokop, A.M. Long, D. Votaw, A. Georgiadou, J. Görres, E. Stech, and M. Wiescher
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1069, 169941 (December 2024)
  7. More on William Fowler
    M. Wiescher and K. Langanke
    Physics Today 77, 12 (December 2024)
  8. Probabilistic neural networks for improved analyses with phenomenological 𝑅-matrix
    C.H. Kim, K.Y. Chae, M.S. Smith, D.W. Bardayan, C.R. Brune, R.J. deBoer, D. Liu and D. Odell
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 054609 (November 2024)
  9. Precise mass measurements of 𝐴 =133 isobars with the Canadian Penning Trap: Resolving the 𝑄𝛽− anomaly at 133Te
    A.A. Valverde, F.G. Kondev, B. Liu, D. Ray, M. Brodeur, D.P. Burdette, N. Callahan, A. Cannon, J.A. Clark, D.E.M. Hoff, R. Orford, W.S. Porter, G. Savard, K.S. Sharma, and L. Varriano
    Phys. Lett. B 858, 139037 (November 2024)
  10. Indirect Measurement of the 3He(n,p)3H Reaction Cross Section at Big Bang Energies
    R.G. Pizzone, M.L. Sergi, A.A. Oliva, T. Zanatta-Martinez, L. Lamia, R. Spartá, G.L. Guardo, M. La Cognata, G. D'Agata, S. Palmerini, A. Tumino, M. Costa, D. Cittadino, A. Di Pietro, P. Figuera, I. Indelicato, A. Massara, S. Cherubini, G.G. Rapisarda, S. Romano, C. Spampinato, M. Couder, W. Tan, M. Wiescher, D. Lattuada, M. Gulino, V. Burjan, J. Mrazek, M. La Commara, M. Mazzocco, P.M. Prajapati, S. Aguilar, T. Anderson, D. Bardayan, D. Blankstein, L. Callahan, A. Clark, B. Frentz, A. Gula, M. Hall, S.L. Henderson, R. Kelmar, Q. Liu, J. Long, A. Majundar, S. McGiunness, A. Nelson, P. O'Malley, C. Seymour, M. Skulski, J. Wilkinson, S.M. Cha, K.Y. Chae, M.S. Kwag, and S. Typel
    ApJ 976:27 (November 2024)
  11. Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 𝛼+12C synthesis and the 𝑆 factor for 12C⁡(𝛼,𝛾)⁢16O radiative capture
    A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, R.J. deBoer, B.F. Irgaziev, L.D. Blokhintsev, A.S. Kadyrov, and D.A. Savin
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 055803 (November 2024)
  12. First experiments with a graphite moderator for the Neutron Target Demonstator (NTD)
    R. Reifarth, I. Bos, O. Cantrell, A. Cooper, A. Couture, S. Dellmann, M. Febbraro, D. Gorelov, C. Harrington, J. Manfredi, K. Manukyan, M. Matney, S. Mosby, D. Robertson, E. Stech, and W. Tan
    GOSTI.gov ID: 2477158 (November 2024)
  13. First total cross section measurements of 25,26Mg⁢(𝛼,𝑛)⁢28,29Si via direct recoil detection
    D. Blankstein, D.W. Bardayan, P.D. O'Malley, J. Allen, T.L. Bailey, C. Boomershine, E. Briley, D.P. Burdette, L.K. Callahan, S. Carmichael, A.M. Clark, A.C. Dombos, O. Olivas-Gomez, S.L. Henderson, L. Morales, A.D. Nelson, and J. Wilkinson
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 045803 (October 2024) (see highlight)
  14. Experimental study of 6He Coulomb breakup as an indirect measurement of 4He(2n,γ)6He reaction rate for the astrophysical r-process
    D. Godos, L. Acosta., J.P. Fernández-García, P. O’Malley, A.M. Sánchez-Benítez, A. Di Pietro, A. Tumino, A. Vicente, C. Boomershine, C. Dembski, C. Fougères, C. Jones, D. Bardayan, D. Galaviz, E. Aguilera, F. Afonso, F.G. Barba, F. Rivero, G. Mulcahy, J. Casal, J.C. Morales Rivera, J. Gómez-Camacho, J.M. Arias, J. Ruffino, K. Lee, M. Couder, M. La Commara, M. Mazzocco, M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, P. Figuera, P. Teubig, R. Pires, R. Zite, S. Coil, T. Bailey, and W. von Seeger
    EPJ Web Conf. 304, 02003 (October 2024)
  15. The Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph at the University of Notre Dame
    S. Carmichael, P. O’Malley, D. Bardayan, T. Bailey, C. Boomershine, M. Brodeur, S. Coil, C. Dembski, T. Gore, C. Jones, J. Koros, K. Lee, P.L. Domingues Magro, J. McDonaugh, G. Mulcahy, W. Porter, F. Rivero, D. Robertson, J. Rufino, A. Sanchez, E. Stech, W. von Seeger, and R. Zite
    EPJ Web Conf. 304, 02002 (October 2024) (see highlight)
  16. Absolute cross section of the 17O(n,α)14C reaction
    A.A. Oliva, R.J. deBoer, G.L. Guardo, M. La Cognata, and L. Lamia
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 045812 (October 2024)
  17. Comprehensive study of 𝑑+6Li via observing simultaneous outgoing neutrons, 𝛾 rays, and charged particles
    S.N. Paneru, H.Y. Lee, C. Prokop, S.A. Kuvin, C. Fichtl, P. Gastis, G.M. Hale, E. Leal-Cidoncha, M. Mosby, M. Paris, M. Febbraro, TT. King, J. Nattress, T.J. Ruland, R.J. deBoer, E. Stech, T. Bailey, C. Boomershine, S. Carmichael, A. Clark, R. Fang, J Görres, R. Kelmar, K. Lee, K. Manukyan, M. Matney, J. McDonaugh, A. Miller, A. Nelson, P. O'Malley, D. Robertson, Shahina, W. Tan, W.W. von Seeger, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 044603 (October 2024) (see highlight)
  18. Optical model potentials for deuteron scattering off 24Mg, 28Si, 58Ni, 90Zr, 116Sn, and 208Pb at ≈100 MeV/nucleon
    D. Patel, D.C. Cuong, K.B. Howard, U. Garg, D.T. Khoa, H. Akimune, G.P.A. Berg, M. Fujiwara, M.N. Harakeh, M. Itoh, C. Iwamato, T. Kawabata, K. Kawase, J.T. Matta, T. Murakami, and M. Yosoi
    Phys. Rev. C, 110 044314 (October 2024)
  19. Superior Stability of CsPbBr3 Films under High-Energy Proton Irradiation
    E. Aleksanyan, V. Harutyunyan, A. Badalyan, N. Grigoryan, N. Margaryan, A. Manukyan, L. Matevosyan, H. Okrepka, V. Trepalin, Y. Ding, M. Zhukovskyi, M. Kuno, A. Aprahamian, and K. Manukyan
    J. Phys, Chem, C 128, 40, 16854-16860 (September 2024)
  20. Investigating the effects of precise mass measurements of Ru and Pd isotopes on machine learning mass modeling
    W.S. Porter, B. Liu, D. Ray, A.A. Valverde, M. Li, M.R. Mumpower, M. Brodeur, D.P. Burdette, N. Callahan, A. Cannon, J.A. Clark, D.E.M. Hoff, A.M. Houff, F.G. Kondev, A.E. Lovell, A.T. Mohan, G.E. Morgan, C. Quick, G. Savard, K.S. Sharma, T.M. Sprouse, and L. Varriano
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 034321 (September 2024) (see highlight)
  21. Coincident measurement of the 12C+12C fusion cross section via the differential thick-target technique
    W.P. Tan, A. Gula, K. Lee, A. Majumdar, S. Moylan, O. Olivas-Gomez, Shahina, M. Wiescher, E.F. Aguilera, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, and J.C. Morales-Rivera
    Phys. Rev. C, 100, 035808 (September 2024) (see highlight)
  22. Were the Superheavy Elements made in Space?
    A. Aprahamian
    EPJ Web of Conferences 301, 01001 (August 2024)
  23. Radiological Analyses of 226Ra and 238U in Surface Water and Sediments from the Jackpile Member of the Morrison Formation, Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico
    V.G. Rodriguez, A. Majumdar, I. Meza, L. Corcoran, A. Pierson, K. Gagnon, C. Cano, A.-M. S. Ali, C.M. Shuey, G. Jojola, W. Tan, A., Aprahamian, J.M. Cerrato, and P.C. Burns
    Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 15138−15146 (August 2024)
  24. On-line installation of the Superallowed Transition Beta-Neutrino Decay Ion Coincidence Trap
    M. Brodeur, D.W. Bardayan, O. Bruce, R. Bualuan, D.P. Burdette, J.A. Clark, A.T. Gallant, D. Gan, D. Guillet, A.M. Houff, J.J. Kolata, B. Liu, P.D. O’Malley, W.S. Porter, C. Quick, F. Rivero, G. Savard, W.W. von Seeger, A.A. Valverde and R. Zite
    EPJ Web Conf. 301, 02002 (August 2024)
  25. Energy, strength, and 𝛼 width measurements of 𝐸c.m.=1323 and 1487 keV resonances in 15N(𝛼,𝛾)19F
    R. Fang, J. Görres, R.J. deBoer, S. Moylan, A.T. Sanchez, T.L. Bailey, S. Carmichael, J. Koros, K. Lee, K. Manukyan, M. Matney, J.P. McDonaugh, D. Robertson, J. Rufino, E. Stech, and M. Couder
    Phys. Rev. C, 110 025806 (August 2024) (see highlight)
  26. Effect of ground-state deformation on the isoscalar giant monopole resonance and the first observation of overtones of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance in rare-Earth Nd isotopes
    M. Abdullah, S. Bagchi, M.N. Harakeh, H. Akimune, D. Das, T. Doi, L.M. Donaldson, Y. Fujikawa, M. Fujiwara, T. Furuno, U. Garg, Y.K. Gupta, K.B. Howard, Y. Hijikata, K. Inaba, S. Ishida, M. Itoh, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, D. Kar, T. Kawabata, S. Kawashima, K. Khokhar, K. Kitamura, N. Kobayashi, Y. Matsuda, A. Nakagawa, S. Nakamura, K. Nosaka, S. Okamoto, S. Ota, S. Pal, R. Pramanik, S. Roy, S. Weyhmiller, Z. Yang, and J.C. Zamora
    Phys. Lett. B 855,138852 (August 2024)
  27. Direct measurement of the break-out 19F(p,γ)20Ne reaction in the China Jinping underground laboratory (CJPL)
    Y.J. Chen, H. Zhang, L.Y. Zhang, J.J. He, R.J. deBoer, M. Wiescher, A. Heger, D. Kahl, J. Su, D. Odell, X.Y. Li, J.G. Wang, L. Zhang, F.Q. Cao, Z.C. Zhang, X.Z. Jiang, L.H. Wang, Z.M. Li, L.Y. Song, L.T. Sun, Q. Wu, J.Q. Li, B.Q. Cui, L.H. Chen, R.G. Ma, E.T. Li, G. Lian, Y.D. Sheng, Z.H. Li, B. Guo, and W.P. Liu
    Nuclear Science and Techniques, 35, 143 (August 2024)
  28. The Manhattan Project and the Development of Nuclear Astrophysics
    M. Wiescher
    EPJ Web of Conferences 301, 01004 (August 2024)
  29. Strength measurement of the 𝐸𝛼lab=830 keV resonance in the 22Ne⁢(𝛼,𝑛)⁢25Mg reaction using a stilbene detector
    Shahina, R.J. deBoer, J. Görres, R. Fang, M. Febbraro, R. Kelmar, M. Matney, K. Manukyan, J.T. Nattress, E. Robles, T.J. Ruland, T.T. King, A. Sanchez, R.S. Sidhu, E, Stech, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 015801 (July 2024) (see highlight)
  30. Multichannel constraints on the 6Li⁢(𝑝,𝛾)7⁢Be reaction
    P.M. Prajapati and R.J. deBoer
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 015802 (July 2024)
  31. Were the Superheavies Made in the r-Process?
    A. Aprahamian
    Nuclear Physics News, 34, 2, 8-10 (June 2024)
  32. Elastic scattering of 8B+natZr at the sub-barrier energy of 26.5 MeV
    K. Palli, A. Pakou, P.D. O'Malley, L. Acosta, A.M. Sánchez-Benítez, G. Souliotis, A.M. Moro, E.F. Aguilera, E. Andrade, D. Godos, O. Sgouros, V. Soukeras, C. Agodi, T.L. Bailey, D.W. Bardayan, C. Bommershine, M. Brodeur, F. Cappuzello, S. Carmichael, M. Cavallaro, S. Dede, J.A. Dueñas, J. Henning, K. Lee, W.S. Porter, F. Rivero, and W. von Seeger
    Phys. Rev. C 109, 064614 (June 2024)
  33. β-delayed neutron spectroscopy of 70,72Co ground-state and isomeric-state decays
    K. Siegl, A.M. Keeler, R. Grzzywacz, N.T. Brewer, B.P. Crider, A. Fijalkowska, S. Go, M. Hall, J.H. Hamilton, S.V. Ilyushkin, T. King, S. Liddick, M. Madurga, P.D. O'Malley, S.V. Paulauskas, M.M. Rajabali, S.Z. Taylor, E.H. Wang, Z.Y. Xu, and C. Zachary
    Phys. Rev. C 109, 064309 (June 2024)
  34. Remeasuring the anomalously enhanced 𝐵⁡(𝐸⁢2;2+→1+) in 8Li
    S.J. Henderson, T. Ahn, P.J. Fasano, A.E. McCoy, S. Aguilar, D.T. Blankstein, L. Caves, A.C. Dombos, R.K. Grywacz, K.L. Jones, S. Jin, R. Kelmar, J.J. Kolata, P.D. O'Malley, C.S. Reingold, A. Simon, and K. Smith
    Phys. Rev. C 109 064304 (June 2024)
  35. Enhancing the Thermal Mineralization of Perfluorooctanesulfonate on Granular Activated Carbon Using Alkali and Alkaline-Earth Metal Additives
    C. Abou-Khalil, L. Chernysheva, A. Miller, A. Abarca-Perez, G. Peaslee, P. Herckers, P. Westerhoff, and K. Doudrick
    Environ. Sci. Technol. 58, 11162-11174 (June 2024)
  36. The 24Mg(˛,p)27 Al reaction measurement using solenoid spectrometer for nuclear astrophysics (SSNAP)
    G.M. Gu, K.Y. Chae, S.M. Cha, M.S. Kwag, M.J. Kim, J. Allen, P.D. O'Malley, A. Boeltzig, A.M. Clark, B. Frentz, B.V. Kolk, D. Blankstein, D.W. Bardayan, J. Wilkinson, G. Seymour, K.B. Howard, M. Renaud, M.R. Hall, R.J. deBoer, P. Huestis, R. Kelmar, S. Aguilar, and S.L. Henderson
    Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Particles and Nuclei (May 2024)
  37. Lifetimes of 0+ states in 162Dy
    A. Aprahamian, C. Casarella, S.R. Lesher, K. Lee, B.P. Crider, M.M. Meier, E.E. Peters, F.M. Prados-Estévez and Z. Tully
    Eur. Phys. J. A 60, 83 (April 2024)
  38. Improved Tensor Current Limit from 8B 𝛽 Decay Including New Recoil-Order Calculations
    B. Longfellow, A. T. Gallant, G. H. Sargsyan, M. T. Burkey, T. Y. Hirsh, G. Savard, N. D. Scielzo, L. Varriano, M. Brodeur, D. P. Burdette, J. A. Clark, D. Lascar, K. D. Launey, P. Mueller, D. Ray, K. S. Sharma, A. A. Valverde, G. L. Wilson, and X. L. Yan
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 142502 (April 2024)
  39. Cooling the atmosphere
    P. Wiescher and M. Wiescher
    Natural Sciences, vol. 4, issue 2-3
  40. Multi-Isotope determination of uranium-rich material using accelerator mass spectrometry
    A.M. Clark, A.D. Nelson, T.L. Bailey, D. Blankstein, C. Boomershine, G.M. Brown, P.C. Burns, S. Carmichael, L.K. Callahan, J. Koros, K. Lee, M. Matney, A.M. Miller, O. Olivas-Gomez, M. Paul, R. Pardo, F. Rivero, D. Robertson, G.E. Sigmon, W.W. von Seeger, E. Stech, R. Zite, and P. Collon
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 548, 165253 (March 2024)
  41. Filtering contaminants from a γ-sum spectrum: Measurement of the 94Mo(p,γ)95Tc cross section
    R. Kelmar, J.P. McDonaugh, A. Simon, J. O'Reilly, A.C. Dombos, A. Gula, J. Koros, M. Matney, O. Olivas-Gomez, D. Robertson, and E. Stech
    Phys. Rev. C 109, 035805 (March 2024) (see highlight)
  42. Nuclear Physics Mid Term Plan at LNGS
    R. Buompane, F. Cavanna, C. Curceanu, A. D'Onfrio, A. Di Leva, A. Formicola, L. Gialanella, C. Gustavino, G. Imbriani, M. Junker, A. Marcianò, F. Marzaioli, R. Nania, F. Napolitano, K. Piscicchia, O. Straniero, C. Abia, M. Aliotta, D. Bemmerer, A. Best, A. Boeltzig, C. Bruno, A. Caciolli, A. Chieffi, G. Ciani, G. D'Agata, R.J. deBoer, M. DeCesare, D. Dell'Aquila, R. Depalo, I. Dominguez, F. Ferraro, J. Garcia Duarte, A. Guglielmetti, Gy. Gyürky, S. Hayakawa, M. LaCognata, L. Lamia, L.E. Marcucci, E. Masha, M. Mazzocco, E.L. Morales-Gallegos, S. Palmerini, I. Passariello, A. Petraglia, D. Piatti, M. Pignatari, R.G. Pizzone, G. Porzio, D. Rapagnani, G.G. Rapisarda, S. Romano, M. Rubino, C. Santonastaso, M.L. Sergi, J. Skowronski, R. Spartà, F. Terrasi, A. Tumino, S. Turkat, M. Wiescher, and S. Zavatarelli
    Eur. Phys. J. Plus, 139, 224 (March 2024)
  43. Mantattan Project astrophysics
    M. Wiescher and K. Langanke
    Physics Today, 77, 3 (March 2024)
  44. Advanced picosecond precision Radio Frequency Timer
    S. Zhamkochyan, V. Kakoyan, S. Abrahamyan, H. Elbakyan, G. Ayvazyan, R. Ayvazyan, A. Ghalumyan, A. Kakoyan, S. Mayilyan, A. Papyan, A. Piloyan, H. Rostomyan, A. Safaryan, G. Sughyan, H. Vardanyan, H. Zohrabyan, J. Annand, K. Livingston, R. Montgomery, P. Achenbach, J. Pochodzalla, D.L. Balabanski, S.N. Nakamura, A. Aprahamian, M. Brodeur, V. Sharyy, D. Yvon, and A. Margaryan
    JINST 19, CO2014 (February 2024)
  45. Measurement of the 13C(α, n0)16O Differential Cross Section from 0.8 to 6.5 MeV
    R.J. deBoer, M. Febbraro, D.W. Bardayan, C. Boomershine, K. Brandeburg, C. Brune, S. Coil, M. Couder, J. Derkin, S. Dede, R. Fang, A. Fritsch, A. Gula, Gy. Gyürky, B. Hackett, G. Hamad, Y. Jones-Alberty, R. Kelmar, K. Manukyan, M. Matney, J. McDonaugh, Z. Meisel, S. Moylan, J. Nattress, D. Odell, P. O'Malley, M.W. Paris, D. Robertson, Shahina, N. Singh, K, Smith, M.S. Smith, E. Stech, W. Tan, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 062702 (February 2024) (see highlight)
  46. The Beta-decay Paul Trap Mk IV: Design and commissioning
    L. Varriano, G. Savard, J.A. Clark, D.P. Burdette, M.T. Burkey, A.T. Gallant, T.Y. Hirsh, B. Longfellow, N.D. Scielzo, R. Segel, E.J. Boron III, M. Brodeur, N. Callahan, A. Cannon, K. Kolos, B. Liu, S. Lopez-Cacerres, M. Gott, B. Maaß, S.T. Marley, C. Mohs, G.E. Morgan, P. Mueller, M. Oberling, P.D. O'Malley, W.S. Porter, Z. Purcell, D. Ray, F. Rivero, A.A. Valverde, G.L. Wilson, and R. Zite
    Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1058, 168818 (January 2024)
  47. Nuclear astrophysicists at war
    M. Wiescher and K. Langanke
    Natural Sciences, 4:e20230023 (January 2024)