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Hydrogen Deuteride for Cold Neutron Production: A Model for the Double Differential Cross Section by Guarini, Eleonora, DiJulio, Douglas D., Marquez Damian, José I., Bafile, Ubaldo, Celli, Milva

“…The present work deals with the modeling of the response to neutrons of heteronuclear diatomic liquids, with special interest in the case of hydrogen deuteride…”
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Generation of thermal neutron scattering libraries for liquid para-hydrogen and ortho-deuterium using ring-polymer molecular dynamics by Dijulio, Douglas D., Marquez Damian, Jose Ignacio, Muhrer, Gunter

“…In this paper we present results of combining ring-polymer molecular dynamics with the LEAPR and THEMR modules of NJOY to generate thermal neutron scattering…”
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Neutronic Design of the Bunker Shielding for the European Spallation Source by Zanini, L., DiJulio, D., Kennedy, S., Klinkby, E., Santoro, V.

“…The European Spallation Source bunker is a common shielding area that surrounds the target monolith, protecting the instrument areas from the high dose of…”
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Coulomb excitation of Na-29,Na-30: Mapping the borders of the island of inversion by Seidlitz, M., Reiter, P., Altenkirch, R., Bastin, B., Bauer, C., Blazhev, A., Bree, N., Bruyneel, B., Butler, P. A., Cederkäll, Joakim, Davinson, T., De Witte, H., DiJulio, Douglas, Diriken, J., Gaffney, L. P., Geibel, K., Georgiev, G., Gernhaeuser, R., Huyse, M., Kesteloot, N., Kroell, T., Kruecken, R., Lutter, R., Pakarinen, J., Radeck, F., Scheck, M., Schneiders, D., Siebeck, B., Sotty, C., Steinbach, T., Taprogge, J., Van Duppen, P., de Walle, J. Van, Voulot, D., Warr, N., Wenander, F., Wimmer, K., Woods, P. J., Wrzosek-Lipska, K.

“…Nuclear shell evolution in neutron-rich Na nuclei around N = 20 was studied by determining reduced transition probabilities, i.e., B(E2) and B(M1) values, in…”
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High-energy in-beam neutron measurements of metal-based shielding for accelerator-driven spallation neutron sources by DiJulio, D. D., Cooper-Jensen, C. P., Björgvinsdóttir, H., Kokai, Z., Bentley, P. M.

“…Metal-based shielding plays an important role in the attenuation of harmful and unwanted radiation at an accelerator-driven spallation neutron source. At the…”
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Benchmarking shielding simulations for an accelerator-driven spallation neutron source by Cherkashyna, Nataliia, DiJulio, Douglas D., Panzner, Tobias, Rantsiou, Emmanouela, Filges, Uwe, Ehlers, Georg, Bentley, Phillip M.

“…The shielding at an accelerator-driven spallation neutron facility plays a critical role in the performance of the neutron scattering instruments, the overall…”
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Examination of reactor grade graphite using neutron powder diffraction by DiJulio, D.D., Hawari, A.I.

“…Graphite is of principal interest in Generation IV nuclear reactor concepts. In particular, graphite will be the moderator for the Very High Temperature…”
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Collectivity in the light radon nuclei measured directly via Coulomb excitation by Gaffney, L. P., Robinson, A. P., Jenkins, D. G., Andreyev, A. N., Bender, M., Blazhev, A., Bree, N., Bruyneel, B., Butler, P. A., Cocolios, T. E., Davinson, T., Deacon, A. N., De Witte, H., DiJulio, D., Diriken, J., Ekström, A., Fransen, Ch, Freeman, S. J., Geibel, K., Grahn, T., Hadinia, B., Hass, M., Heenen, P.-H., Hess, H., Huyse, M., Jakobsson, U., Kesteloot, N., Konki, J., Kröll, Th, Kumar, V., Ivanov, O., Martin-Haugh, S., Mücher, D., Orlandi, R., Pakarinen, J., Petts, A., Peura, P., Rahkila, P., Reiter, P., Scheck, M., Seidlitz, M., Singh, K., Smith, J. F., Van de Walle, J., Van Duppen, P., Voulot, D., Wadsworth, R., Warr, N., Wenander, F., Wimmer, K., Wrzosek-Lipska, K., Zielińska, M.

“…Background: Shape coexistence in heavy nuclei poses a strong challenge to state-of-the-art nuclear models, where several competing shape minima are found close…”
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Low-energy Coulomb excitation of $^{62}$Fe and $^{62}$Mn following in-beam decay of $^{62}$Mn by Gaffney, L. P., van de Walle, J., Bastin, B., Bildstein, V., Blazhev, A., Bree, N., Darby, I., de Witte, H., Dijulio, D., Diriken, J., Fedosseev, V. N., Fransen, Ch, Gernhäuser, R., Gustafsson, A., Hess, H., Huyse, M., Kesteloot, N., Kröll, Th, Lutter, R., Marsh, B. A., Reiter, P., Seidlitz, M., van Duppen, P., Voulot, D., Warr, N., Wenander, F., Wimmer, K., Wrzosek-Lipska, K.

“…Sub-barrier Coulomb-excitation was performed on a mixed beam of $^{62}$Mn and $^{62}$Fe, following in-trap $\beta^{-}$ decay of $^{62}$Mn at REX-ISOLDE, CERN…”
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Measurements and Monte-Carlo simulations of the particle self-shielding effect of B4C grains in neutron shielding concrete by DiJulio, D.D., Cooper-Jensen, C.P., Llamas-Jansa, I., Kazi, S., Bentley, P.M.

“…A combined measurement and Monte-Carlo simulation study was carried out in order to characterize the particle self-shielding effect of B4C grains in neutron…”
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Application of automated weight windows to spallation neutron source shielding calculations using Geant4 by Stenander, John, DiJulio, Douglas D.

“…We present an implementation of a general weight-window generator for global variance reduction in Geant4 based applications. The implementation is flexible…”
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Coulomb Excitation of Sn 104 and the Strength of the Sn 100 Shell Closure by Guastalla, G., DiJulio, D. D., Górska, M., Cederkäll, J., Boutachkov, P., Golubev, P., Pietri, S., Grawe, H., Nowacki, F., Sieja, K., Algora, A., Ameil, F., Arici, T., Atac, A., Bentley, M. A., Blazhev, A., Bloor, D., Brambilla, S., Braun, N., Camera, F., Dombrádi, Zs, Domingo Pardo, C., Estrade, A., Farinon, F., Gerl, J., Goel, N., Grȩbosz, J., Habermann, T., Hoischen, R., Jansson, K., Jolie, J., Jungclaus, A., Kojouharov, I., Knoebel, R., Kumar, R., Kurcewicz, J., Kurz, N., Lalović, N., Merchan, E., Moschner, K., Naqvi, F., Nara Singh, B. S., Nyberg, J., Nociforo, C., Obertelli, A., Pfützner, M., Pietralla, N., Podolyák, Z., Prochazka, A., Ralet, D., Reiter, P., Rudolph, D., Schaffner, H., Schirru, F., Scruton, L., Sohler, D., Swaleh, T., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Zs, Wadsworth, R., Warr, N., Weick, H., Wendt, A., Wieland, O., Winfield, J. S., Wollersheim, H. J.

“…A measurement of the reduced transition probability for the excitation of the ground state to the first 2(+) state in Sn-104 has been performed using…”
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Determination of the isomeric fraction in a postaccelerated radioactive ion beam using the coupled decay-chain equations by Ekström, A., Cederkäll, J., DiJulio, D.D., Fahlander, C., Van de Walle, J.

“…A method based on the coupled decay-chain equations for extracting the isotopic and the isomeric composition of a postaccelerated radioactive ion beam is…”
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Development of thermal scattering kernels for sodium hydroxide by Klinkby, Esben, Marquez Damian, José Ignacio, DiJulio, Douglas D., Muhrer, Günter, Krzystyniak, Matthew, Mortazavi, Ali, Goodway, Chris, Romanelli, Giovanni

“…NaOH was recently proposed as a moderator for the compact molten salt reactors, under development by Seaborg Technologies. In order to reliably predict the…”
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Advances in nuclear data development for moderator and reflector design at the European Spallation Source by DiJulio, Douglas D., Marquez Damian, José Ignacio, Kittelmann, Thomas, Xu, Shuqi, Granada, José Rolando, Muhrer, Gunter

“…Thermal neutron scattering data for neutronic design of neutron sources traditionally has been limited to a few selected materials due to the relevance of…”
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Thermal scattering libraries for cold and very-cold neutron reflector materials by Dijulio, Douglas D., Marquez Damian, Jose Ignacio, Bernasconi, Marco, Campi, Davide, Gorini, Giuseppe, Kittelmann, Thomas, Klinkby, Esben, Muhrer, Gunter, Ramic, Kemal, Rizzi, Nicola, Santoro, Valentina

“…We present recent developments of improved modelling methods for simulating neutron transport in reflector materials of interest for neutron source…”
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Measurements of the neutron absorption in supermirror coatings by DiJulio, D. D, Santoro, V, Devishvili, A, Khaplanov, A, Kolevatov, R, Magán, M, Miller, T. M, Muhrer, G

“…In this work we report on measurements of neutron absorption in supermirror coatings. The measurements were carried out using the SuperADAM instrument at the…”
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Population-based metaheuristic optimization in neutron optics and shielding design by DiJulio, D. D, Björgvinsdóttir, H, Zendler, C, Bentley, P. M

“…Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 835, 1 November 2016,…”
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Theoretical calculations of neutron scattering cross sections for tetrahydrofuran-containing clathrate hydrates at low temperature by Xu, Shuqi, Laporte, Sara Isaline, DiJulio, Douglas D., Marquez Damian, Jose Ignacio, Kittelmann, Thomas, Bernasconi, Marco, Campi, Davide, Gorini, Giuseppe, Santoro, Valentina

“…Tetrahydrofuran-containing clathrate hydrate is considered as a potential cold and very cold neutron moderator material. The fully deuterated form is more…”
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A polyethylene-B4C based concrete for enhanced neutron shielding at neutron research facilities by DiJulio, D.D., Cooper-Jensen, C.P., Perrey, H., Fissum, K., Rofors, E., Scherzinger, J., Bentley, P.M.

“…We present the development of a specialized concrete for neutron shielding at neutron research facilities, based on the addition of hydrogen atoms in the form…”
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