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Compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The COHERENT particle physics experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has firmly established the existence of a new kind of neutrino interaction. Because neutrinos are electrically neutral and interact only weakly with matter, the quest to observe this interaction drove advances in detector technology and has added new information to theories aiming to explain mysteries of the cosmos.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Consortium for Non-proliferation Enabling Capabilities, DOE/Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Korea's Institute for Basic Science

Story tips: Volcanic microbes, unbreakable bonds and flood mapping

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Volcanic microbes, unbreakable bonds and flood mapping

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NASA, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; U.S. Air Force

PlanetSense: Stepping in when disaster strikes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As Hurricane Dorian raged through the Bahamas, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory worked around the clock to aid recovery efforts for one of the Caribbean's worst storms ever, providing geographic data that guided decisions on everything from where to open emergency shelters to how to staff first-aid centers.

Story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection.

Journal: Science
Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Welcome to Neutrino Alley

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The COHERENT experiment makes the most of the Spallation Neutron Source's neutrino factory with five detectors sited along a 164-foot, or 50-meter, long hallway that has come to be called Neutrino Alley. Here, Marcel Demarteau, director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explains its successes and possibilities.

New engine capability accelerates advanced vehicle research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented view inside the atomic-level workings of combustion engines in real time.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

New class of cobalt-free cathodes could enhance energy density of next-gen lithium-ion batteries

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and consumer electronics.

Journal: Journal of Power Sources

Simulations reveal nature's design for error correction during DNA replication

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A Georgia State University team has used the nation's fastest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to find the optimal path that one E. coli enzyme uses to switch between building and editing DNA to rapidly remove misincorporated pieces of DNA.

Righting a wrong, nuclear physicists improve precision of neutrino studies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a new study clears up a discrepancy regarding the biggest contributor of unwanted background signals in specialized detectors of neutrinos. Better characterization of background could improve current and future experiments to detect real signals from these weakly interacting, electrically neutral subatomic particles and understand their role in the universe.

Co-Optima research determines accurate predictor of fuel performance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As ORNL's fuel properties technical lead for the U.S. Department of Energy's Co-Optimization of Fuel and Engines, or Co-Optima, initiative, Jim Szybist has been on a quest for the past few years to identify the most significant indicators for predicting how a fuel will perform in engines designed for light-duty vehicles such as passenger cars and pickup trucks.

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