Publications

Experimental characterization of an in-core fast neutron irradiation facility at a TRIGA reactor
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Castro, Sarah T., Mathis, Kohlton D., Shah, Khiloni A., De Luna, Brandon A., Lapka, Joseph L., Haas, Derek A.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-026-10725-2

Experimental characterization of an in-core fast neutron irradiation facility at a TRIGA reactor
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Castro, Sarah T., Mathis, Kohlton D., Shah, Khiloni A., De Luna, Brandon A., Lapka, Joseph L., Haas, Derek A.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-026-10725-2

Separation of Zr-88 and Y-88 by HDEHP for the preparation of a Zr-88 target for nuclear data measurements
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Lapka, J. L., Nolting, D. D., Charlton, W., Moldenhauer, J., Flanagan, W.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10690-2

Separation of Zr-88 and Y-88 by HDEHP for the preparation of a Zr-88 target for nuclear data measurements
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Lapka, J. L., Nolting, D. D., Charlton, W., Moldenhauer, J., Flanagan, W.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10690-2

Separation of Zr-88 and Y-88 by HDEHP for the preparation of a Zr-88 target for nuclear data measurements
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Lapka, J. L., Nolting, D. D., Charlton, W., Moldenhauer, J., Flanagan, W.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10690-2

Self-attenuation in gamma-ray spectrometry: theory, correction methods, and applications
Faculty Member: Sheldon Landsberger
Almaz, Ekrem, Landsberger, Sheldon. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY (2026) , 291
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107855

Modeling in support of a cryogenic tracer irradiation facility
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Hudson, Clayton, Lapka, Joseph, Haas, Derek. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026) , 335 (1) , 931-937.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-026-10730-5

Production of gaseous radiotracers with a cryogenic irradiation facility
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Hudson, Clayton, Lapka, Joseph, Slack, Johnathan, Johnson, Christine, Seifert, Carolyn, Haas, Derek. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2026) , 335 (1) , 595-602.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10644-8

Comparison of neutron activation analysis and passive counting for environmental radioactivity measurements
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Kaitschuck, Nicholas, Bekker, JohnPeter, Haas, Derek, Landsberger, Sheldon. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY (2025) , 289
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107766

Accuracy of the Scaled Flux Method for Spatially Resolved Nuclide Transmutation in Flowing-Fuel Molten Salt Reactors
Faculty Member: Shayan Shahbazi
Seifert, Luke, Shahbazi, Shayan, Richards, Scott, Munk, Madicken, Huff, Kathryn. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2568258

Toward a Generalizable Prediction Model of Molten Salt Mixture Density with Chemistry-Informed Transfer Learning
Faculty Member: Shayan Shahbazi
Barra, Julian, Shahbazi, Shayan, Birri, Anthony, Chahal, Rajni, Isah, Ibrahim, Anwar, Muhammad Nouman, Starkus, Tyler, Balaprakash, Prasanna, Lam, Stephen. CHEMPHYSCHEM (2025) , 26 (23)
https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202500273

Assisting Weld Defect Detection Using U2Net: A Machine Learning Approach
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Thompson, Cole J., Porter, Reid B., O'neil, Brian E., Charlton, William S.. RESEARCH IN NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (2025) , 36 (5-6) , 243-260.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09349847.2025.2580247

Radiochemical transport analysis of gamma spectroscopic data to support estimation of molten salt reactor off-gas inventories (oct,10.1007/s10967-025-10431-5,2025)
Faculty Member: Shayan Shahbazi
Shahbazi, Shayan, Fei, Tingzhou. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10525-0

The appropriate environmental sample to educate novice students in environmental radioactivity measurements using gamma ray spectroscopy
Faculty Member: Sheldon Landsberger
Martin, Christopher, Cockerline, Kayla, Landsberger, Sheldon. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY (2025) , 290
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107815

Rapid high precision analysis of uranium content in Texas ores using gamma-ray spectrometry
Faculty Member: Sheldon Landsberger
Martin, C., Almaz, E., Sabry, M., Landsberger, S.. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY (2025) , 290
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2025.107812

The Alpha-SPECT-Mini: A Small-Animal SPECT System Based on Hyperspectral Compound-Eye Gamma Cameras
Faculty Member: Elena Zannoni
Zannoni, Elena Maria, Yang, Can, Cai, Ling, Wilson, Matthew D., Chen, Chin-Tu, Meng, Ling-Jian. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RADIATION AND PLASMA MEDICAL SCIENCES (2025) , 9 (8) , 1107-1117.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TRPMS.2025.3560558

First observation of antiproton annihilation at rest on argon in the LArIAT experiment
Faculty Member: William Flanagan
Basque, V., Acciarri, R., Asaadi, J., Backfish, M., Badgett, W., Cavanna, F., Flanagan, W., Foreman, W., Gomes, R. A., Gramellini, E., Hernandez-Morquecho, M. A., Ho, J., Kearns, E., Kemp, E., King, M., Kobilarcik, T., Kryczynski, P., Littlejohn, B. R., Marchionni, A., Moura, C. A., Raaf, J. L., Schmitz, D., Soderberg, M., John, J. M. St., Szelc, A. M.. PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2025) , 111 (9)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.094031

A Heavy Ion Monitor on a Chip based on a non-volatile memory architecture
Faculty Member: William Flanagan
Julson, Dale, Flanagan, Will, Youngs, Mike, Medcalf, Aidan, Anderson, Benedict, Palit, Sharanya, Hossain, Tim. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT (2025) , 1072
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.170221

Meeting ReportPIDS: Instrumentation Development of a Miniaturized Nuclear Imaging Capsule for Minimally Invasive Molecularly Targeted Cancer Surgery
Faculty Member: Elena Zannoni
Patel, Krishan, Confalonieri, Lorenzo, O'fallon, Linzie, Galvez, Stephan, Whittemore, Anthony, Ikoma, Naruhiko, Zannoni, Elena maria. JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE (2025) , 66

Development of a robot-assisted platform for adaptive and reconfigurable SPECT imaging
Faculty Member: Elena Zannoni
Confalonieri, Lorenzo, Alambeigi, Farshid, Zannoni, Elena Maria. JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE (2025) , 66

First Multi-isotope Pre-Clinical Imaging Study with DE-SPECT: A Hyperspectral SPECT System for in Vivo 3-D Gamma-Ray Spectrometry of Multifunctional Molecular Imaging of Peripheral Vascular Disease
Faculty Member: Elena Zannoni
Jin, Yifei, Zannoni, Elena maria, Thorn, Stephanie, Jang, Sun-joo, Nazari, Matthew, Burns, Rachel, Sankar, Poopalasingam, Zhang, Feng, Streicher, Michael, He, Zhong, Metzler, Scott, Liu, Chi, Sinusas, Albert, Meng, Ling jian. JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE (2025) , 66

Small Animal Total-Body Dynamic Imaging of Alpha-Emitter Radiopharmaceutical Therapy with the Upgraded Alpha-SPECT-Mini System
Faculty Member: Elena Zannoni
Yang, Can, Zannoni, Elena maria, Fong, Ching, Qing, Ansong, Huang, Xiaopei, Ouyang, Zhonghua, Deleon, Brendan, Du, Yong, Ray, Sangeeta, Sgouros, George, Meng, Ling jian. JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE (2025) , 66

The economics of small modular reactors at coal sites: A program-level analysis within the state of Texas
Faculty Member: Kevin Clarno
Wieser, Eric, Clarno, Kevin, Haas, Derek, Webber, Michael E.. ENERGY POLICY (2025) , 202
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114572

Measurement of the isomeric yield ratio for <SUP>88</SUP>Zr thermal neutron absorption
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Kelly, Isaac, Flanagan, Will, Moldenhauer, Jacob, Charlton, William, Lapka, Joseph, Nolting, Donald. PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2025) , 111 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.111.L021601

Measurement of the isomeric yield ratio for <SUP>88</SUP>Zr thermal neutron absorption
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Kelly, Isaac, Flanagan, Will, Moldenhauer, Jacob, Charlton, William, Lapka, Joseph, Nolting, Donald. PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2025) , 111 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.111.L021601

Measurement of the isomeric yield ratio for <SUP>88</SUP>Zr thermal neutron absorption
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Kelly, Isaac, Flanagan, Will, Moldenhauer, Jacob, Charlton, William, Lapka, Joseph, Nolting, Donald. PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2025) , 111 (2)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.111.L021601

The design and demonstration of a simulation surrogacy method for the study of MSR lifecycle chemistry
Faculty Member: Kevin Clarno
Clayton, Braden, Duong, Loc, Moss, Erika, Chvala, Ondrej, Clarno, Kevin, Haas, Derek. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2025) , 334 (12) , 9369-9384.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10589-y

Measurement of a cold neutron cross section for the <SUP>40</SUP>Ca(n, α)<SUP>37</SUP>Ar reaction
Faculty Member: William Charlton
Shah, Khiloni A., Castro, Sarah T., Mathis, Kohlton D., Lapka, Joseph L., Charlton, William S., Haas, Derek A.. APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES (2025) , 226
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.112215

Separation of I-132 from fission products by solvent extraction for gamma ray branching ratio determination
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Lapka, Joseph L., Fuller, Robert, Haas, D. A.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2025) , 334 (12) , 9397-9405.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10503-6

From research to production: scaling up isotope activities and lessons learned
Faculty Member: Derek Haas
Tipping, T. N., Nolting, D. D., Lapka, J. L., Haas, D. A.. JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY (2025) , 334 (12) , 9489-9492.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-025-10445-z