Projects

The neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at the SNS will measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron - essentially the roundness of its charge distribution - to help distinguish between different theoretical explanations for the existence of matter in the universe.

https://nedm.ornl.gov/

The NUCLEI collaboration will be using some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers, including ORNL’s TITAN, to calculate properties and reactions of atomic nuclei.

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 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.