{"id":262,"date":"2018-08-07T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:04:33","slug":"centaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/2018\/08\/centaur\/","title":{"rendered":"CENTAUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/files\/2018\/08\/logo-centaur-color.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/files\/2018\/08\/logo-centaur-color.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/files\/2018\/08\/logo-centaur-color.png 717w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/files\/2018\/08\/logo-centaur-color-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a>In April this year, my group joined the Center of Excellence CENTAUR funded by National Nuclear Security Administration at Texas A&amp;M. Through the center, we will continue our work with the HYPERION array at the Texas A&amp;M cyclotron to investigate the statistical properties of rare-earth nuclei. Such measurements provide constraints for the neutron capture cross sections for nuclear astrophysics (s- and r-processes) and for applications (reactor physics, stockpile stewardship, national security).<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nd.edu\/news\/training-the-next-generation-of-leaders-in-low-energy-nuclear-physics\/\">https:\/\/news.nd.edu\/news\/training-the-next-generation-of-leaders-in-low-energy-nuclear-physics\/<\/a> and in the Texas A&amp;M press release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.tamu.edu\/news\/story.php?story_ID=2006#.W2oMoP5KhE4\">http:\/\/www.science.tamu.edu\/news\/story.php?story_ID=2006#.W2oMoP5KhE4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April this year, my group joined the Center of Excellence CENTAUR funded by National Nuclear Security Administration at Texas A&amp;M. Through the center, we will continue our work with the HYPERION array at the Texas A&amp;M cyclotron to investigate the statistical properties of rare-earth nuclei. Such measurements provide constraints for the neutron capture cross &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/2018\/08\/centaur\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/anna-simon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}