A team led by James Vary of Iowa State University leveraged Titan to simulate clusters of neutrons called “neutron drops” to understand their properties better.
Scientists use Oak Ridge and Argonne supercomputers to gain insight into nuclear behavior The Vary team made predictions about the behavior of fluoride–14 and published its results in Physical Review C. The predictions (ab initio bars) nearly matched an experiment done 6 months later at Texas A&M’s Cyclotron Institute (experiment…