Projects

The SciDAC Towards Exascale Astrophysics of Mergers and Supernovae (TEAMS) Collaboration is investigating supernovae explosions and neutron-star mergers that create atomic elements heavier than iron and predict such as gravitational waves from these events.

The GODDESS system will be used to measure reactions with neutron-rich unstable nuclei to understand the evolution of shell structure and neutron capture rates relevant for the r-process in neutron star mergers and in core-collapse supernovae.

The Nab project is an experiment at the SNS that will search for new physics beyond the Standard Model via a high-precision measurement of the "a" and "b" neutron decay parameters.

NPDGamma and n3He - the first two experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Fundamental Neutron Physics Beamline (FNPB) - measured parity-violating (PV) asymmetries in neutron capture in light nuclear systems in order to elucidate the weak interaction in hadronic systems.