Los Alamos Science 2006 №30

Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2006, 233 p.
Popular science magazine about new achievements in physics, experimental techniques and computer simulation.
Stretching out along the mesa from west to east is the half-mile long linear acceleartor, the heart of LANSCE. This high-intensity proton accelerator powers LANSCE's many experimental facilities including the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center and the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) Facility. In the last five years, LANSCE's contributions to national security have become increasingly important, including proton radiography movies of dynamic events, nuclear data on short-lived isotopes, and materials science data for determining weapon component lifetimes. During the same period, the number of external users contributing to international science has nearly tripled.Introductory Note - (Susan J. Seestrom)
LANSCE - A Key Facility for National Science and Defense - (Kurt F. Schoenberg and Paul W. Lisowski)
LANSCE Where Science Meets National Security - (An Interview with Founder Louis Rosen)
LANSCE and the Nuclear Weapons Program - (Phil Goldstone)
Proton Radiography - (Christopher Morris, John W. Hopson, and Phillip Goldstone)
A New Camera on a Chip for pRad Movies - (Kris Kwiatkowski, Nicholas King, and Vincent M. Douence)
Fundamental Nuclear Data for Pinning down the Performance of Nuclear Weapons - (Robert C. Haight, Mark B. Chadwick, and David J. Vieira)
Stardust and the Secrets of Heavy-Element Production - (Rene Reifarth)
Aging and Deformation of Uranium-Niobium Alloys - (Donald W. Brown, Robert E. Hackenberg, David F. Teter, and Mark A. Bourke)
Plutonium under Pressure: Introduction - (James L. Smith and George Chapline)
Filling the Gap in Plutonium Properties - Studies at Intermediate Temperatures and Pressures - (Albert Migliori, Alan J. Hurd, Yusheng Zhao, and Cristian Pantea)
Plutonium Magic - (Angus Lawson)
The Ice House - Neutron Testing Leads to More-Reliable Electronics - (Bruce E. Takala)
Testing a Flight Control System for Neutron-Induced Disturbances - (Celeste M. Belcastro, Kenneth Eure, and Richard Hess)
Accelerator Radioisotopes Save Lives - The Isotope Production Facility at Los Alamos - (Eugene J. Peterson)
The Role of LANSCE in the Nuclear Energy Future - (Michael W. Cappiello and Dana C. Christensen)
Storing Hydrogen in Crystalline Molecular Cages of Water - (Konstantin A. Lokshin and Yusheng Zhao)
Introduction to Materials and Bioscience Neutron-Scattering Research - (Alan J. Hurd and Dale W. Schaefer)
Unraveling the True Atomic Structures of Exotic Oxides - (Thomas Proffen and Takeshi Egami)
Pair Distribution Function for Nanoparticle Studies - (Thomas E. Proffen, Katharine L. Page, Ram Seshadri, and Anthony Cheetham)
The Hydrophobic Effect - Why do Raindrops Slide off Leaves - (Dhaval A. Doshi, Erik B. Watkins, Jacob N. Israelachvili, and Jaroslaw Majewski)
Anticorrosion Coatings - Can They Be Made without Chromium? - (Dale W. Schaefer, Guirong Pan, and Wim van Ooij)
Origins of Spin Coupling across Interfaces - (Michael Fitzsimmons and Sunil K. Sinha)
Finding out How Enzymes Work - (Paul A. Langan)
How Single Hydrogen Atoms Came Into View - (Benno P. Schoenborn)
Overview of Fundamental Physics at LANSCE - (Martin D. Cooper and W. Scott Wilburn)
Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron - (Martin D. Cooper)
The NPDGamma Experiment - (W. Scott Wilburn)
Neutron b-Decay and Precision Tests of the Standard Model - (Takeyasu Ito and J. David Bowman)
The User Program at LANSCE - Serving the Nation and the Laboratory - (Allen Hartford, Jr)