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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. ...

C55-13c-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 ...

High concentrations of underserved populations with low social capital in urban areas, along with assets and ecosystems in vulnerable zones, present high risks of cascading failures and expected loss of lives and property. A key gap is the lack of urban models that can help to address and visualize threats, especially under a changing climate and with growing urbanization and “coastalization” ...

C55-22a-270353The DOE Office of Nuclear Physics (NP) seeks new developments in detector electronics with significantly improved energy, position, timing resolution, sensitivity, rate capability, stability, dynamic range, and background suppression. Applications are sought to develop high channel density (>=256 channels/board) digital data acquisition system with >= 100 MSPS, >=12 bit ADC informati ...

C55-18a-270355Synchrotron light sources have continuously and impressively grown in brightness and beam quality since their inception in 1947 at General Electric in upstate New York [1]. Indeed, we are at the point where X-ray synchrotron light sources have been optimized to the Diffraction Limit and Free Electron Lasers (FEL) have been fully developed. Nonetheless, ongoing manufacturing and metro ...

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 ...

C55-01b-270447-AbstractAs device designs become more complex and incorporate new, advanced technologies and materials, accurate simulations of multi-physics phenomenology become critical to ensuring that such design and analysis efforts are successful. The diversity of problems of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE) and wider audiences includes examples such as electric motor/generator desi ...

An effective high power positron converter for electron Linacs is not currently available from industry. A commercial source allows the nation's research institutes to have ready access to high brightness positrons for a wealth of material science, nuclear, particle, and accelerator physics projects. Improving the efficiency of the converter target will allow these projects to proceed without in-h ...

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 ...