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Nuclear physics (NP) experiments require large channel count detectors to accurately monitor, or trace events induced by sub-atomic particles. Gamma- and X-ray imaging and spectroscopy instruments are frequently utilized to detect, localize, and characterize nuclear materials, photons, or particles of light. These detector systems include a large number of simultaneously working detector elements. ...

C55-22c-270318More stringent challenges, as required by future high energy physics experiments, require higher radiation tolerance and higher granularity to the silicon detectors. Recently developed precision timing detector technology based on silicon Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) although exhibits excellent timing performance, cannot attain 10 µm position resolution needed for advanced 4D det ...

C55-13c-270336The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Carbon Storage program is focused on ramping up commercial scale carbon capture and geologic storage (CCUS) operations across the US to combat the release of CO2, a potent greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, into the atmosphere. Each one of these commercial scale operations will sequester greater than one metric megaton per year of CO ...

BioSynthetic Machines, Inc. (BSMI) is a Chicago, IL-based startup company launched in late 2021 with a goal to revolutionize design and engineering of the microorganisms for production of chemicals. We utilize the innovative machine learning (ML) and experimental methods of synthetic biology developed by the founders at Argonne National Laboratory and exclusively licensed to the company. Our proof ...

Water management, stormwater control, and other flooding concerns present common and significant issues in many urban environments. As communities look to tackle issues related to urban flooding and streamflow, automated sensors that are low-cost and easy to install will be crucial to monitoring and restoration efforts. The unique challenges posed by urban stream monitoring require an innovative a ...

Our warming climate is amplifying environmental and human health problems in urban areas. Heat island effects, flooding, droughts, altered pollutant transport patterns, and human respiratory stress are examples of interactions between macro- and micro-climates that impact urban areas. The share of the global population living in cities is expected to rise to 80% by 2050, compared to 55% today. Emi ...

Sparse data is common in many scientific disciplines. Examples include large-scale simulations of physical phenomena, High Energy Physics experiments, machine learning applications, and many more. Acquired data is stored in a scientific data format that became a de facto standard for data management in government, academia and industry. As the amount of data in the scientific format continues to g ...

Superconducting and photonic qubits are the leading platforms for quantum computation, now and for the foreseeable future, and will provide essential functionality to large-scale quantum networks. To achieve this, techniques are needed to coherently convert between the microwave states used by the qubits and optical states required for long-distance communication, a conversion that needs to occur ...

C55-18a-270598Although direct detection technology delivers substantially better image quality for transmission electron microscopy (TEM), its limited dynamic range and radiation sensitivity generally preclude its use for a variety of TEM applications. At present, direct detection is well-suited for biological cryo-EM, where illumination is relatively uniform and the electron exposure rate is limi ...

C55-10a-270599High-speed direct detection cameras have enabled a variety of experiments to probe structural dynamics in response to various stimuli. As microscope stages improve, it will become possible to capture these dynamics in three dimensions (3D) by repeatedly acquiring rapid continuous rotation tomography data. However, such data requires complex image processing to generate interpretable ...