Members of the target design team pose next to the 2.0-megawatt-capable mercury flow target they developed. Credit: Genevieve ...

Oak Ridge Lab's Spallation Neutron Source reached 1.7 MW with a new target for 1,250 hours, ahead of a 2025 review.

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have achieved a big breakthrough in neutron research. They ran a neutron production system for 1,250 hours using a 1.7-megawatt proton beam. This ...

Steven Lamoreaux is an atomic physicist whose research has contributed to our understanding of the dark matter that is bound ...

David McClintock is a materials scientist supporting research and development activities for target systems at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is ...

The University of Tennessee's neutron source enhances education by providing hands-on learning opportunities for students and ...

Scientists have finally proven the existence of "supersolids," a bizarre state of matter that behaves like both a liquid and ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

Neutron techniques nowadays are fundamental in materials science, biomedical, geology, energy, as well as archaeology. Neutron scattering, neutron diffraction, neutron imaging, neutron ...

When the two neutron stars collide, the initial kilonova of exploded neutron star guts is extremely hot, billions of degrees, ...

In August 2017, humanity observed a wonder. For the first time, we got to see two neutron stars colliding, an event observed by telescopes around the world, alerted by the gravitational ruckus as ...