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 AWARDS

International award for pioneering x-ray spectroscopy with superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters
    
  7th Technology Incentive Award
PML scientists Doug Bennett, John Gard, James Hays-Wehle, Galen O’Neil, and Dan Swetz (Quantum Sensors Group, Quantum Electromagnetics Division), as part of the international HEATES collaboration, recently received the 7th Technology Incentive Award from the Japanese RIKEN Nishina Center. The award is presented to researchers under the age of 40 for significant contributions to furthering RIKEN’s ideals by achieving exemplary results in research.
Winner's Name
                                Doug Bennett, John Gard, James Hays-Wehle, Galen O’Neil, and Dan Swetz

Awarded
                                March 30, 2016

Awarding Organization
      
                          Japanese RIKEN Nishina CenterThis award presentation was primarily based on the team’s pioneering measurements of exotic atom x-ray emission with a TES microcalorimeter spectrometer.  These demonstration measurements were performed on pionic helium and carbon and conducted at one of the high-energy beamlines at Paul Scherer Institute. The results [1] were recently acknowledged as a “Highlight of the Year” at RIKEN [2] for “*the world’s first application of a TES spectrometer for hadronic-atom x-ray spectroscopy and a key milestone toward more general use of high-resolution microcalorimeter spectrometers at charged-particle beam lines*.” Previous measurements of similar exotic atoms using conventional semiconductor x-ray spectrometers had insufficient resolution to detect small spectral shifts due to strong-force interactions. By utilizing the microcalorimeter spectrometer, the team was able to achieve energy resolution that is over two orders of magnitude better than previous measurements with conventional spectrometers. Based on the success of these initial results, the PML Group recently deployed a dedicated spectrometer to the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), where it will perform follow-on measurements of exotic atoms later this year.[1] Tatsuno et. al., “Absolute Energy Calibration of X-ray TESs with 0.04 eV Uncertainty at 6.4 keV in a Hadron-Beam Environment”, JLTP, p1—8, 2016.[2] http://www.rarf.riken.jp/researcher/APR/APR048/pdf/12.pdf
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            7th Technology Incentive Award
PML scientists Doug Bennett, John Gard, James Hays-Wehle, Galen O’Neil, and Dan Swetz (Quantum Sensors Group, Quantum Electromagnetics Division), as part of the international HEATES collaboration, recently received the 7th Technology Incentive Award from the Japanese RIKEN Nishina Center. The award is presented to researchers under the age of 40 for significant contributions to furthering RIKEN’s ideals by achieving exemplary results in research.
Winner's Name
                                Doug Bennett, John Gard, James Hays-Wehle, Galen O’Neil, and Dan Swetz

Awarded
                                March 30, 2016

Awarding Organization
      
                          Japanese RIKEN Nishina Center
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      NIST HeadquartersLaboratory ProgramsPhysical Measurement LaboratoryQuantum Sensors DivisionQuantum Calorimeters Group

    
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