The COHERENT experiment makes use of the intense, high-quality neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source to measure neutrino-nucleus scattering. COHERENT made the first of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) in 2017 and its ongoing program with multiple target nuclei will probe physics beyond the standard model, and address questions in nuclear physics and astrophysics.
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The synthesis of the heaviest nuclei and studies of their properties expands our understanding of the extent and structure of the atomic and nuclear worlds. Recently, ORNL was recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry for contributions to the discovery of two new elements, tennessine (atomic number 117) and moscovium (atomic number 115).
The overarching goal of this project is to attain a fundamental, predictive understanding of key chemical processes in aqueous solutions, at mineral-water interfaces, and within geologic media that affect mineral nucleation, growth, and dissolution and drive changes in porosity, permeability and water quality.
This multidisciplinary research program closely integrates experiments and computations toward the overarching goal of understanding the structural, energetic, and mechanistic factors leading to selective, energy-efficient, and sustainable anion separations with reactive, self-organizing receptors and frameworks.
The overall goal of this project is to investigate fundamental issues of gas separations by nanostructured architectures and unconventional media that selectively bind and/or transport target molecular species via tailored interactions.
The overarching goal of this research project is to understand how to control selectivity through tuning cooperativity in multi-functional catalysts.
The High Energy Nuclear Physics Group studies the features of both high temperature and low temperature Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) in strongly interacting matter using ultra high energy collisions of p+p, p+Pb and Pb+Pb at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the A Large Ion Collider Experiment. (ALICE). Presently, the ORNL group leads a large collaboration of US groups conducting a central Barrel Tracking Upgrade (BTU) of the ALICE experiment for a new program of measurements on the Quark Gluon Plasma starting in 2002.
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Develop an energy-efficient spiking neural network (SNN) computing architecture and software system capable of autonomous learning and operation