Neutron Vision at Los Alamos: Exploring the Frontiers of Nuclear Materials Science
Alexander Long & Sven Vogel
Nuclear News 68-2 (2025)
Impact of extinction effects on neutron transmission and diffraction in solid beryllium metal
S. Xu, D.D. DiJulio, J.I. Marquez Damian, S.C. Vogel, A.M. Long, T.Y. Hirsh, T. Kittelmann, V. Kuksenko, & G. Muhrer
Physical Review B, (submitted)
Energy-Resolved Neutron Imaging and Diffraction including Grain Orientation Mapping Using Event Camera Technology
Tsviki Y. Hirsh, Andrew F.T. Leong, Alexander M. Long, Adrian S. Losko, Alexander Wolfertz, Daniel J. Savage, Tim T. Jaeger, John Rakovan, James J. Wall, & Sven C. Vogel
Nature Scientific Reports, (accepted)
Characterization of a mock up nuclear waste package using energy resolved MeV neutron analysis
Tim T. Jaeger, Tsviki Y. Hirsh, Stefan Scheuren, Alexander M. Long, Adrian S. Losko, Alexander Wolfertz, Marc Zimmer, Markus Roth, & Sven C. Vogel
Nature Scientific Reports 15, 823 (2025)
Large Field-of-View Event-Mode Camera for High-Precision Epithermal Neutron Resonance Imaging
Tsviki Y. Hirsh, Alexander M. Long, Adrian S. Losko, Tim T. Jaeger, Alexander Wolfertz, & Sven C. Vogel
Nature Scientific Reports, (accepted)
Advances in Detection for Neutron Reflectometry with Time-Resolved Imaging Detectors
Anton Khaplanov, John Ankner, Mathtew Loyd, Erik Watkins, Tsviki Hirsh, Adrian Losko, Alexander Wolfertz, Alexander M. Long, Sven Vogel, & G. Jeffrey Sykora
Nature Scientific Reports, (submitted)
Energy-Resolved Fast-Neutron Radiography Using an Event-Mode Neutron Imaging Detector
Alexander Wolfertz, Adrian Losko, Alexander M. Long, Sophia Brodish, Aaron E. Craft, Anton Khaplanov, Sven C. Vogel, Ronald O. Nelson, Stephen A. Wender, Anton Tremsin, Tsviki Y. Hirsh, Tim T. Jager, Manuel Morgano, & Patrick Feng
Nature Scientific Reports, 14 30487 (2024)
LumaCam: A Novel Class of Position-Sensitive Event Mode Particle Detectors using Scintillator Screens
Alexander Wolfertz, Alex Gustschin, Michael Schulz, Alexander M. Long, Anton Khaplanov, Tsviki Y. Hirsh, Andrei Nomerotski, Manuel Morgano, Anton Tremsin, Giacomo Mauri, G. Jeff Sykora, & Adrian Losko
Nature Scientific Reports, 14 30495 (2024)
Low Energy Neutron-induced Charged-particle (Z)(LENZ) instrument development with a focus on pulse shape discrimination for low-energy charged particles
Hye Young Lee, S.A. Kuvin, S.M. Mosby, C.J. Prokop, A.M. Long, D. Votaw, A. Georgiadou, J. Görres, E. Stech, & M. Wiescher
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1069 (2024)
Small-angle scattering and dark field imaging for validation of a new neutron far-field interferometer
Caitlyn M. Wolf, Peter Bajcsy, Wei-Ren Chen, Robert M. Dalgliesh, M. Cyrus Daugherty, Liliana de Campo, Fumiaki Funama, Lilin He, Michael Huber, David Jacobson, Paul Kienzle, Youngju Kim, Hubert King, Nikolai Klimov, Jacob LaManna, Fankang Li, Alexander M. Long, Ryan Murphy, Gergely Nagy, Sarah M. Robinson, Pushkar Sathe, Gregory N. Smith, Anna Sokolova, Sven C. Vogel, Erik B. Watkins, Yuxuan Zhang, Dan Hussey, & Katie Weigandt
Journal of Applied Crystallography 57(6), (2024)
Phase and contrast moire signatures in two-dimensional cone beam interferometry
D. Sarenac, G. Gorbet, Charles W. Clark, D. G. Cory, H. Ekinci,2 M. E.Henderson, M. G. Huber, D. Hussey, C. Kapahi, P. A. Kienzle, Y. Kim, A. M. Long, J. D. Parker, T. Shinohara, F. Song, & D. A. Pushin
Physical Review Research (6), (2024)
A compact furnace to support in situ neutron imaging of hydrogen dynamics in yttrium hydride moderators
James Torres, Alexander M. Long, D. Travis Carver, Christopher Matthews, Sven Vogel, Tyler Smith, Caitlin Kohnert, Erik Luther, Holly Trellue, and Aditya Shivprasad
MRS Advances (2024)
Demonstration of neutron time-of-flight diffraction with an event-mode imaging detector
Tim T Jäger, Adrian S Losko, Alexander Wolfertz, Søren Schmidt, Mads Bertelsen, Anton Khaplanov, Sean R Agnew, Fumiaki Funama, Manuel Morgano, Markus Roth, Jason R Gochanour, Alexander M. Long, Luca Lutterotti, & Sven C Vogel
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 57(4), (2024)
TRINIDI: Time-of-Flight Resonance Imaging with Neutrons for Isotopic Density Inference
T. Balke, A.M. Long, S.C. Vogel, B. Wohlberg, and C.A. Bouman
IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, vol. 10, pp. 154-169 (2024)
The Complex, Unique and Powerful Imaging Instrument for Dynamics (CUPI2D) at the Spallation Neutron Source
A. Brugger, H.Z. Bilheux, J.Y.Y. Lin, G.J. Nelson, A. Kiss, D.J.P. Morris, M. Connolly, A.M. Long, A.S. Tremsin, A. Strzelec, M. Anderson, R.J. Agasie, C.E.A. Finney, M.L. Wissink, M.H. Hubler, R. Pellenq, C.E. White, B.J. Heuser, A. Craft, J.M. Harp, C. Tan, K. Morris, B. Schillinger, & S.C. Vogel
Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 051301 (2023)
Density Measurement of NaCl-MgCl₂-PuCl₃ and NaCl-UCl₃-PuCl₃ Molten Salt Systems by Neutron Radiographic Dilatometry
Stephen Scott Parker, Alexander M. Long, Charles Lhermitte, Sven Vogel, Marisa Monreal, and J. Matthew Jackson
Journal of Molecular Liquids, 346 (2022)
Remote Density Measurements of Molten Salts via Neutron Radiography
Long, A. M., Parker, S. S., Carver, D. T., Jackson, J. M., Monreal, M. J., Newmark, D. A., & Vogel, S. C.
Journal of Imaging, 7(5), 88 (2021)
Effects of Hydrogen Redistribution at High Temperatures in Yttrium Hydride Moderator Material
Trellue, H. R., Long, A. M., Luther, E. P., Carver, D. T., & Mehta, V. K.
The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 73, 3513-3518 (2021)
Flexible 3D Printed Silicones for Gamma and Neutron Radiation Shielding
Talley, S. J., Robison, T., Long, A. M., Lee, S. Y., Brounstein, Z., Lee, K. S., & Labouriau, A.
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 188, 109616 (2021)
α-unbound levels in ³⁴Ar from ³⁶Ar(p,t)³⁴Ar reaction measurements and implication for the astrophysical ³⁰S(α,p)³³Cl reaction rate
A.M. Long, T. Adachi, M. Beard, G. P. A. Berg, M. Couder, R. J. deBoer, M. Dozono, J. Görres, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, D. Ishikawa, T. Kubo, H. Matsubara, Y. Namiki, S. O’Brien, Y. Ohkuma, H. Okamura, H. J. Ong, D. Patel, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, S. Suzuki, R. Talwar, A. Tamii, A. Volya, T. Wakasa, R. Watanabe, M. Wiescher, R. Yamada, & J. Zenihiro
Physical Review C 97, 054613 (2018)
Determination of ²⁰Ne(p,γ)²¹Na cross sections from Eₚ = 500 - 2000 keV
S. Lyons, J. Gorres, R.J. deBoer, E. Stech, Y. Chen, G. Gilardy, Q. Liu, A.M. Long, M. Moran, D. Robertson, C. Seymour, B. Vande Kolk, & M. Wiescher
Physical Review C 97 (2018)
An indirect study of the stellar ³⁴Ar(α,p)³⁷K reaction rate through ⁴⁰Ca(p,t)³⁸Ca reaction measurements
A.M. Long, T. Adachi, M. Beard, G. P. A. Berg, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, M. Couder, R. J. deBoer, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Fortsch, J. Gores, J. P. Mira, S. H. T. Murray, R. Neveling, P. Papka, F. D. Smit, E. Sideras-Haddad, J. A. Swartz, R. Talwar, I. T. Usman, M. Wiescher, J. J. Van Zyl, & A. Volya
Physical Review C 95, 055803 (2017)
Probing astrophysically important states in the 26Mg nucleus to study neutron sources for the s-process
Talwar, R., Adachi, T., Berg, G.P.A., Bin, L., Bisterzo, S., Couder, M., DeBoer, R.J., Fang, X., Fujita, H., Fujita, Y., Gorres, J., Hatanaka, K., Itoh, T., Kadoya, T., Long, A., Miki, K., Patel, D., Pignatari, M., Shimbara, Y., Tamii, A., Wiescher, M., Yamamoto, T., Yosoi, M.
Physics Review C 93 (2016)
Low energy neutron background in deep underground laboratories
Best, A., Gorres, J., Junker, M., Kratz, K.-L., Laubenstein, M., Long, A., Nisi, S., Smith, K., Wiescher, M.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 812 (2016)
(α,γ) cross section measurements in the region of light p nuclei
Quinn, S.J., Spyrou, A., Simon, A., Battaglia, A., Bowers, M., Bucher, B., Casarella, C., Couder, M., Deyoung, P.A., Dombos, A.C., Gorres, J., Kontos, A., Li, Q., Long, A., Moran, M., Paul, N., Pereira, J., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Smith, M.K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W.P., Wiescher, M.
Physics Review C 92 (2015)
Systematic study of (α,γ) reactions for stable nickel isotopes
Simon, A., Beard, M., Spyrou, A., Quinn, S.J., Bucher, B., Couder, M., DeYoung, P.A., Dombos, A.C., Gorres, J., Kontos, A., Long, A., Moran, M.T., Paul, N., Pereira, J., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W.P., Wiescher, M.
Physics Review C 92 (2015)
First Direct Measurement of C12(C12,n)Mg23 at Stellar Energies
Bucher, B., Tang, X.D., Fang, X., Heger, A., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Alongi, A., Ayangeakaa, A.D., Beard, M., Best, A., Browne, J., Cahillane, C., Couder, M., Deboer, R.J., Kontos, A., Lamm, L., Li, Y.J., Long, A., Lu, W., Lyons, S., Notani, M., Patel, D., Paul, N., Pignatari, M., Roberts, A., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W.P., Wiescher, M., Woosley, S.E.
Physical Review Letters 114 (2015)
First application of the γ-summing technique in inverse kinematics
Quinn, S.J., Spyrou, A., Simon, A., Battaglia, A., Bowers, M., Bucher, B., Casarella, C., Couder, M., Deyoung, P.A., Dombos, A.C., Greene, J.P., Gorres, J., Kontos, A., Li, Q., Long, A., Moran, M., Paul, N., Pereira, J., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Smith, M.K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W.P., Wiescher, M.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 575 (2014)
Measurement of the 58Ni(α,γ)62Zn reaction and its astrophysical impact
Quinn, S.J., Spyrou, A., Bravo, E., Rauscher, T., Simon, A., Battaglia, A., Bowers, M., Bucher, B., Casarella, C., Couder, M., Deyoung, P.A., Dombos, A.C., Gorres, J., Kontos, A., Li, Q., Long, A., Moran, M., Paul, N., Pereira, J., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Smith, M.K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W.P., Wiescher, M.
Physics Review C 89 (2014)
Measurement of the 90,92Zr(p,γ)91,93Nb reactions for the nucleosynthesis of elements near A=90
Spyrou, A., Quinn, S.J., Simon, A., Rauscher, T., Battaglia, A., Best, A., Bucher, B., Couder, M., Deyoung, P.A., Dombos, A.C., Fang, X., Gorres, J., Kontos, A., Li, Q., Lin, L.Y., Long, A., Lyons, S., Meyer, B.S., Roberts, A., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Smith, M.K., Stech, E., Stefanek, B., Tan, W.P., Tang, X.D., Wiescher, M.
Physics Review C 88 (2013)
Recent Nuclear Astrophysics Measurements using the TwinSol Separator
Bardayan, D.W., Ahn, T., Allen, J., Becchetti, F.D., Blackmon, J.C., Brodeur, M., Frentz, B., Gupta,Y.K., Hall, M.R., Hall, O., Henderson, S., Hu, J., Kelly, J.M., Kolata, J.J.,Long, A., Long, J., Macon,K., Nicoloff, C., O’Malley, P.D., Ostdiek, K., Pain, S.D., Riggins, J., Schultz, B.E., Smith, M., Strauss, S., Torres-Isea, R.O.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 703 (2016)