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Observation Of Ground-State Two-Neutron Decay, M Thoennessen, Z Kholey, A Spyrou, E Lunderberg, Paul A. Deyoung, H Attanayake, T Baumann, D Bazin, B A. Brown, G Christian, D Divaratne, S M. Grimes, A Haagsma, J E. Finck, N Frank, B Luther, S Mosby, T Nagi, Graham F. Peaslee, W A. Peters, A Schiller, J K. Smith, J Snyder, M Strongman, A Volya Mar 2013

Observation Of Ground-State Two-Neutron Decay, M Thoennessen, Z Kholey, A Spyrou, E Lunderberg, Paul A. Deyoung, H Attanayake, T Baumann, D Bazin, B A. Brown, G Christian, D Divaratne, S M. Grimes, A Haagsma, J E. Finck, N Frank, B Luther, S Mosby, T Nagi, Graham F. Peaslee, W A. Peters, A Schiller, J K. Smith, J Snyder, M Strongman, A Volya

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Neutron decay spectroscopy has become a successful tool to explore nuclear properties of nuclei with the largest neutron-to-proton ratios. Resonances in nuclei located beyond the neutron dripline are accessible by kinematic reconstruction of the decay products. The development of two-neutron detection capabilities of the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) at NSCL has opened up the possibility to search for unbound nuclei which decay by the emission of two neutrons. Specifically, this exotic decay mode was observed in16Be and 26O.


Students Talk About Energy In Project- Based Inquiry Science, Benedikt W. Harrer, Virginia J. Flood, Michael C. Wittmann Jan 2013

Students Talk About Energy In Project- Based Inquiry Science, Benedikt W. Harrer, Virginia J. Flood, Michael C. Wittmann

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We examine the types of emergent language eighth grade students in rural Maine middle schools use when they discuss energy in their first experiences with Project-Based Inquiry Science: Energy, a research-based curriculum that uses a specific language for talking about energy. By comparative analysis of the language used by the curriculum materials to students’ language, we find that students’ talk is at times more aligned with a Stores and Transfer model of energy than the Forms model supported by the curriculum.