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Major upgrades of particle detectors + electronics prepare CERN experiment to stream a data tsunami

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For a gargantuan nuclear physics experiment at CERN that will generate big data at unprecedented rates--called A Large Ion Collider Experiment, or ALICE -- the University of Tennessee has worked with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to lead a group of U.S. nuclear physicists from a suite of institutions in the design, development, mass production and delivery of a significant upgrade of novel particle detectors and state-of-the art electronics.

Advanced software framework expedites quantum-classical programming

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An ORNL team developed the XACC software framework to help researchers harness the potential power of quantum processing units, or QPUs. XACC offloads portions of quantum-classical computing workloads from the host CPU to an attached quantum accelerator, which calculates results and sends them back to the original system.

Successful delivery: ORNL demonstrates bi-directional wireless charging on UPS truck

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. The project is the first of its kind to achieve power transfer at this rate across an 11-inch air gap, advancing the technology to a new class of larger vehicles with higher ground clearance.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office

ORNL's Brian Post named SME Young Engineer of the Year

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Brian Post, a researcher in large-scale additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award by the Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME).

Mitch Allmond

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the Physics Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James ("Mitch") Allmond conducts experiments and uses theoretical models to advance our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei, which are made of various combinations of protons and neutrons (nucleons).

"I focus on describing how nucleons organize and what patterns emerge from those organizations," Allmond said.

ORNL is in the fight against COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.

Kat Royston: Finding excitement in nuclear physics

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As a teenager, Kat Royston discovered that physics could give her answers to her questions about the ways the world works. Now, as a researcher in ORNL's Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, she works on unraveling the mysteries of fission and fusion around the world - including research for the ITER and JET fusion experiments.

Big science, tiny snail

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sometimes conducting big science means discovering a species not much larger than a grain of sand.

This happened for Evin Carter, a research associate and wildlife ecologist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who helped discover a new species of cave snail just outside the Oak Ridge Reservation, an area that includes ORNL and parts of the city of Oak Ridge.

Oak Ridge neutron facilities ramping up research to combat COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, it's all-hands-on-deck for the world-leading experts in neutron scattering as they enter the fight against COVID-19. Researchers at the lab's Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor have a plan of attack to unleash a full barrage of neutron capabilities in an ambitious set of experiments that will provide critical pieces of information about the virus's biological structure and how it behaves.

Story tips: Molding matter atom by atom and seeing inside uranium particles

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Molding matter atom by atom and seeing inside uranium particles

Journal: Carbon
Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Laboratory-Directed Research and Development program

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