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Publications (Refereed)

  1. J.T. Thompson, T. Kelley, E. Blain, R.C. Haight, J.M. O'Donnell, Y. Danon, “Measurement of (n,α) reactions on 147Sm and 149Sm using a lead slowing-down spectrometer”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 673, Pages 16-21, 1 May (2012)

  2. M.B. Chadwick, M. Herman, P. Obložinský, M.E. Dunn, Y. Danon, A.C. Kahler, D.L. Smith, B. Pritychenko, G. Arbanas, R. Arcilla, R. Brewer, D.A. Brown, R. Capote, A.D. Carlson, Y.S. Cho, H. Derrien, K. Guber, G.M. Hale, S. Hoblit, S. Holloway, T.D. Johnson, T. Kawano, B.C. Kiedrowski, H. Kim, S. Kunieda, N.M. Larson, L. Leal, J.P. Lestone, R.C. Little, E.A. McCutchan, R.E. MacFarlane, M. MacInnes, C.M. Mattoon, R.D. McKnight, S.F. Mughabghab, G.P.A. Nobre, G. Palmiotti, A. Palumbo, M.T. Pigni, V.G. Pronyaev, R.O. Sayer, A.A. Sonzogni, N.C. Summers, P. Talou, I.J. Thompson, A. Trkov, R.L. Vogt, S.C. van der Marck, A. Wallner, M.C. White, D. Wiarda, P.G. Young, “ENDF/B-VII.1 Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Cross Sections, Covariances, Fission Product Yields and Decay Data”, Nuclear Data Sheets, vol. 112, issue 12, p. 2887-2996, December 2011.

  3. P. Talou, B. Becker, T. Kawano, M. B. Chadwick, and Y. Danon, "Advanced Monte Carlo modeling of prompt fission neutrons for thermal and fast neutron-induced fission reactions on 239Pu", Phys. Rev. C 83, 064612 (2011).

  4. R.Dagan, B. Becker, Y. Danon, “A complementary Doppler Broadening formalism and its impact on nuclear reactor simulation”, Kerntechnik 3, , Page 185-189, (2011).

  5. Donald J. Gillich, Andrew Kovanen, Yaron Danon, “Deuterated target comparison for pyroelectric crystal D–D nuclear fusion experiments”, Journal of Nuclear Materials 405 181–185, (2010).

  6. F.J. Saglimen, Y. Danon, R.C. Block, M.J. Rapp, R.M. Bahran, G. Leinweber, D.P. Barry and N.J. Drindak, “A system for differential neutron scattering experiments in the energy range from 0.5 to 20 MeV”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 620, Issues 2-3, Pages 401-409, (2010).

  7. G Leinweber, DP Barry, JA Burke, NJ Drindak, RC Block, Y Danon, BE Moretti, “Resonance Parameters and Their Uncertainties Derived from Epithermal Neutron Capture and Transmission Measurements of Elemental Molybdenum”, Nuclear Science And Engineering, 164, 287-303, (2010).

  8. C. Romano, Y. Danon, R. Block, J. Thompson, E. Blain, E. Bond, “Fission Fragment Mass And Energy Distributions As A Function of Neutron Energy Measured In A Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, Phys. Rev. C 81, 014607 (2010).

  9. Tae-Ik Ro, Yaron Danon, Emily Liu, Devin P. Barry and Ron Dagan, “Measurements of the Neutron Scattering Spectrum from 238U and Comparison of the Results with a Calculation at the 36.68-eV Resonance”, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 55, No. 4, , pp. 138-1393, October 2009.

  10. T. Z. Fullem, Y. Danon, “Electrostatics of pyroelectric accelerators”, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 074101 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3225916.

  11. T. Z. Fullem, K. C. Fazel, J. A. Geuther, Y. Danon, “Therapeutic Dose from a Pyroelectric Electron Accelerator”, Radiation Research, Volume 172, Issue 5, pp. 643–647, November (2009).

  12. Han B, Bednarz B, Danon Y, Block R, Xu XG., “Evaluation of Nuclear Activation of Tungsten inside a Medical Accelerator” Nuclear Technology, 168:576-579, 2009.

  13. Donald J. Gillich, Ranganath Teki, Travis Z. Fullem, Andrew Kovanen, Ezekiel Blain, Douglas B. Chrisey, Toh-Ming Lu and Yaron Danon, “Enhanced pyroelectric crystal D–D nuclear fusion using tungsten nanorods”, Nano Today (2009), doi:10.1016/j. nantod.2009.04.004.

  14. Don Gillich, Andrew Kovanen, Bryan Herman, Travis Fullem and Yaron Danon, “Pyroelectric Crystal Neutron Production in a Portable Prototype Vacuum System”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 602, Issue 2, 21, Pages 306-310, April 2009.

  15. Y. Danon , R. C. Block, M. J. Rapp, and F. J. Saglime, G. Leinweber, D. P. Barry, N. J. Drindak and J. G. Hoole, Beryllium and Graphite High Accuracy Total Cross-Section Measurements in the Energy Range from 24 keV to 900 keV, Nuclear Science And Engineering, 161, 321–330, (2009).

  16. M. J. Trbovich, D. P. Barry, R.E. Slovacek, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, N. C. Francis, M Lubert, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, G. Leinweber, R. Ballad, “Hafnium Resonance Parameter Analysis Using Neutron Capture and Transmission Experiments” Nuclear Science And Engineering, 161, 303–320, (2009).

  17. Jeffrey A. Geuther and Yaron Danon, “Enhanced neutron production from pyroelectric fusion”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 174103 (2007).

  18. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, and Y. Danon, Comment on “Anomalous neutron Compton scattering from molecular hydrogen”, Phys. Rev. B 75, 057101 (2007).

  19. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, and Y. Danon, “Moreh, Block, and Danon Reply”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 049602 (2007).

  20. G. Leinweber, D.P. Barry, M.J. Trobovich, J.A. Burke, N.J. Drindak, , HD Knox, RV Ballad, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, L.I. Severnyak, “Neutron Capture and Total Cross-Section Measurements and Resonance Parameters of Gadolinium”,. Nuc. Sci Eng. 154, 261-279 (2006).

  21. N.J. Drindak, J.A. Burke, G. Leinweber, J.A. Helm, J.G. Hoole, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, R.E. Slovacek, B.E. Moretti, C.J. Werner, M.E. Overberg, S.A. Kolda, M.J. Trobovich, D.P. Barry, “Neutron Capture and Transmission Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Niobium”, Nuc. Sci Eng. 154, 294-301 (2006).

  22. D. Rochman, R.C. Haight, J.M. O'Donnell, S.A. Wender, D.J. Vieira, E.M. Bond, T.A. Bredeweg, J.B. Wilhelmy, T. Granier, T. Ethvignot, M. Petit, Y. Danon, and C. Romano, "Cross Section Measurements for 239Pu(n,f) and 6Li(n,a) with a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 564, Issue 1 , Pages 400-404 , (2006).

  23. Catherine Romano , Yaron Danon, Robert C. Haight, Stephen A. Wender, David J. Vieirab, Evelyn M. Bond, Robert S. Rundberg, Jerry B. Wilhelmy, John M. O’Donnell, Andre F. Michaudon, Todd A. Bredeweg, Dimitri Rochman, Thierry Granier and Thierry Ethvignot, "Measurements of (n,a) cross-section of small samples using a lead-slowing-down-spectrometer", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 562, Issue 2 , 23 June 2006, Pages 771-773, 2006.

  24. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, and Y. Danon, "Generating a Multi-Line Neutron Beam Using an Electron Linac and a U-Filter", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 562, Issue 1, Pages 401-406, 2006.

  25. Bryndol Sones, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, "X-ray Imaging with Parametric X-Rays (PXR) from a Lithium Fluoride (LiF) Crystal", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 560, 589-597 ( 2006).

  26. D. P. Barry, M. J. Trbovich, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, R. E. Slovacek, G. Leinweber, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, “Neutron Transmission and Capture Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Neodymium From 1.0 eV To 500 eV”. Nuclear Science And Engineering: 153, 8–2, (2006).

  27. Jeffrey Geuther, Yaron Danon and Frank Saglime, “Nuclear reactions induced by a pyroelectric accelerator”, Physical Review Letters, 96 054803 (2006).

  28. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, M. Neuman, “Scattering of 64 eV to 3 keV neutrons from CH2 and graphite and the coherence length problem”, Physical Review Letters, 96 055302, (2006).

  29. M. Petit, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier , R.C. Haight, J.M. O'Donnell, D. Rochman , S.A. Wender, E.M. Bond, T.A. Bredeweg, D.J. Vieira, J.B. Wilhelmy and Y. Danon “A compensated fission detector based on photovoltaic cells”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 554, 340346 (2005).

  30. C. Lee and Y. Danon, "Thickness Measurements for Non-magnetic Metals by Eddy Current Testing", Journal of Nondestructive Testing (China), No.9, Vol 27, Sep.,2005.

  31. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, and M. Neumann, “Search for anomalous scattering of keV neutrons from H2O-D2O mixtures”, Physical Review Letters, 94, 185301 (2005).

  32. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Yaron Danon, “High-Energy X Ray Production with Pyroelectric Crystals”, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 104916 (2005).

  33. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Yaron Danon, “Electron and Positive Ion Acceleration with Pyroelectric Crystals”, J. Appl. Phys. 97, 074109 (2005).

  34. D. Rochman, R. C. Haight, J. M. O'Donnell, A. Michaudon, S. A. Wender, D. J. Vieira, E. M. Bond, T. A. Bredeweg, A. Kronenberg, J. B. Wilhelmy, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier, M. Petit, and Y. Danon, “Characteristics of a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer Coupled to the LANSCE Accelerator”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 550, Pages 397-413, (2005).

  35. Changqing Lee, Yaron Danon and Chris Mulligan, “Characterization of Niobium, Tantalum and Chromium Sputtered Coatings on Steel Using Eddy Currents”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 200, Issue 7, 21 December 2005, Pages 2547-2556.

  36. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, “Minimizing the Statistical Error in Capture cross section measurements”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Volume 544, issue 3, pages 659-667, 1 June (2005).

  37. B. Sones, Y. Danon, and R.C. Block, “Lithium Fluoride (LiF) Crystal for Parametric X-Ray (PXR) Production”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, 227, p. 22-31, (2005).

  38. D. P. Barry, M. J. Trbovich, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, R. E. Slovacek, G. Leinweber, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, “Neodymium Neutron Cross-Section Measurements”, Radiation Protection Dosimetry 115(1-4):139-143 (2005).

  39. Yaron Danon, Bryndol Sones and R. C. Block,” Erratum to: Dead time and pileup in pulsed Parametric X-rays spectroscopy”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 533 issue 3, p. 612, (2004) .

  40. Yaron Danon, Bryndol Sones and R. C. Block, “Dead time and pileup in pulsed Parametric X-rays spectroscopy”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 524. p. 287 –294, 2004 .

  41. Yaron Danon, Changqing Lee, Chris Mulligan and Greg Vigilante, “Characterization of Tantalum Sputtered Coatings on Steel Using Eddy Currents”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 40 No. 4, 1826- 1832, (2004).

  42. S. Wang, M. Lubert, Y. Danon, N. C. Francis, R. C. Block, F. Becvar, M. Krticka, “The RPI multiplicity detector response to g-ray cascades following neutron capture in 149Sm and 150Sm”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 513/3 pp. 585-595, (2003).

  43. T. J. Donovan, Y. Danon, “Application of Monte Carlo Chord-Length Sampling Algorithms to Transport Trough a 2-D Binary Stochastic Mixture”, Nuc. Sci. Eng. Vol. 143(3), p.226-239, March (2003).

  44. Yaron Danon and R. C. Block, “Minimizing The Statistical Error of Resonance Parameters and Cross Sections Derived from Transmission Measurements”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Vol. 485, 585-595 June, (2002).

  45. Leinweber, G.; Burke, J.; Lubitz, C.R.; Knox, H.D.; Drindak, N.J.; Block, R.C.; Slovacek, R.E.; Werner, C.J.; Francis, N.C.; Danon, Y.; Moretti, B.E., “Neutron capture and total cross-section measurements and resonance parameter analysis of zirconium up to 2.5 keV”, Nuc. Sci. Eng., vol.134, no.1 p. 50-67, Jan. (2000).

  46. Y. Danon, C. J. Werner, G. Youk, R. C. Block, R. E. Slovacek, N. C. Francis, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, F. Fiener, and J. A. Helm. “Neutron Total Cross-Section Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Holmium, Thulium, and Erbium”, Nuc. Sci. Eng.128, 61-69 (1998).

  47. Y. Danon, M. S. Moore, P.E Koehler, P. E. Littleton, G.G Miller, M. A. Ott, L. J. Rowton, W. A. Taylor, J., B. Wilhelmy, and M. A. Yates, A. D. Carlson, N. W. Hill, R. Harper and R. Hilko, “Fission Cross Section Measurements Of The Odd-Odd Isotopes 232Pa, 238Np and 236Np”, Nuc. Sci. Eng.124, 482-491 (1996).

  48. Y. Danon, R. C. Block and R. E. Slovacek, “Design and Construction of a Thermal Target for the RPI Linac”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 352, 596-603. (1995).

  49. Y. Danon, R.E. Slovacek, R.C Block, R. W. Lougheed, R. W. Hoff, M. S. Moore, “Fission Cross-Section Measurements of 247Cm, 254Es, and 250Cf from 0.1 eV to 80 keV”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 109 (4) 341-349 (1991).

Conferences (reviewed)

  1. Yaron Danon, Justin Clinton, Kuan-Chih Huang, Nicholas LiCausi, Rajendra Dahal, James J.-Q. Lu and Ishwara Bhat, “Towards High Efficiency Thermal and Fast Solid-State Neutron Detectors”, Proceedings of the international workshop on Fast Neutron Detectors and Applications, Israel, November 6-11, 2011, JINST 7 C03014, March 2012.

  2. Yaron Danon, “Pyroelectric Crystal D-D and D-T Neutron Generators”, Proceedings of the international workshop on Fast Neutron Detectors and Applications, Israel, November 6-11, 2011.

  3. N. Thompson, B. Becker, J. Thompson, D. Beller, S. Bowyer, A. Gavron, G. Imel and Y. Danon, “Non-Destractive Assay of 235U and 239Pu Using a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 105, Washington, D.C., October 30–November 3, 2011

  4. Dan Roubtsov, Ken Kozier, Björn Becker, Yaron Danon, “Neutron Thermal Scattering Laws For Light And Heavy Water For Modeling Critical Assemblies And TOF Experimental Set-Ups With Neutron Transport Codes”, The 22nd International Conference on Transport Theory (ICTT-22), Portland, Oregon, September 11-15, 2011.

  5. P. Talou, B. Becker, T. Kawano and Y. Danon, "Monte Carlo Hauser-Feshbach calculations of prompt neutrons and gamma rays", Third International Workshop on Compound Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics, Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 19-23 2011.

  6. B. Becker, N. Thompson, J. Thompson, , D. Beller, S. Bowyer, V. Garvon, G. Imel and Y. Danon, “Towards Benchmark Measurements For Used Nuclear Fuel Assay Using A Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer”, Proceedings of the Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp 2011), Knoxville, TN, 2011.

  7. J. T. Thompson and Y. Danon, “Development of A New Method to Measure (n,alpha) and (n,p) Cross Sections Using A Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer”, Proceedings of the Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp 2011), Knoxville, TN, 2011.

  8. E. Blain, D. Barry, P. Brand, Y. Danon, “Simultaneous Measurement of Fission Neutron Multiplicity and Spectrum Using a Gamma Tagging Method”, Proceedings of the Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp 2011), Knoxville, TN, 2011.

  9. R. Bahran, Y. Danon, M. Rapp, D. Williams, D. Barry, G. Leinweber, R. Block, J. Hoole, “A New High Resolution Neutron Transmission Detector at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory”, Proceedings of the Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp 2011), Knoxville, TN, 2011.

  10. D. Williams, R. Bahran, E. Blaine, B. McDermott, M. Rapp, Y. Danon, D. Barry, G. Leinweber, R. Block, J. Hoole, “A new method for the measurement of the neutron capture and fssion cross sections of 235U”, Proceedings of the Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp 2011), Knoxville, TN, 2011.

  11. Y. Danon, R. Block (emeritus), C. Romano, J. Thompson, “Fission Physics and Cross Section Measurements with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, Invited, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010. Proceedings in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 1649-1653.

  12. M. Rapp, Y. Danon, F. Saglime, Rian Bahran, Robert Block, Greg Leinweber, Devin Barry, Jeff Hoole, “Molybdenum and Zirconium Neutron Total Cross Section Measurements in the Energy Range of 0.5 to 20 MeV”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010. Proceeding in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 1745-1748.

  13. R. Dagan and B. Becker, Y. Danon, M. Rapp and D. Barry, G. Lohnert, “Modelling a Resonance Dependent Angular Distribution via DBRC in Monte Carlo Codes”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010, Proceeding in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 983-986.

  14. N. LiCausi, J. Clinton, Y. Danon, J.-Q. Lu, and I. Bhat, “Deposition and Etching of Conformal Boron Films for Neutron Detector Applications,” to be printed in MRS Proc., Symp., Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2010.

  15. Peter F. Caracappa, Timothy Trumbull, Thomas Haley, Marie-Pierre Huguet, Wei Ji, Yaron Danon, Bryndol Sones, Donald Gillich, “Making the Most of Hands-On Learning -An Integrated Course at Rensselaer”, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society and Embedded Topical Meeting Isotopes for Medicine and Industry, Volume 103, TANSAO 103, 1–1190, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7–11, 2010.

  16. Justin Dingley, Yaron Danon, Nicholas LiCausi, Jian-Qiang Lu, Ishwara B. Bhat, “Directional Response of Microstructure Solid State Thermal Neutron Detectors”, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society and Embedded Topical Meeting Isotopes for Medicine and Industry, Volume 103, TANSAO 103, 1–1190, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7–11, 2010.

  17. Y. Danon, R. Block, J. Harvey, “Production of Mo-99 Using 30-MeV Electrons and a Mo-100 Target” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society and Embedded Topical Meeting Isotopes for Medicine and Industry, Volume 103, TANSAO 103, 1–1190, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7–11, 2010.

  18. Don Gillich, Mike Shannon, Andrew Kovanen, Tom Anderson, Kevin Bright, Ronald Edwards, Yaron Danon, Brian Moretti1, Jeffrey Musk, “Pyroelectric Crystal Accelerator in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at West Point”, 21st International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2010), Renaissance Worthington Hotel Fort Worth, Texas, US , 8-13 August 2010.

  19. Tom Anderson, R J Edwards, Kevin Bright, Andrew Kovanen, Yaron Danon, Brian Moretti, Jeffrey Musk, Mike Shannon, Don Gillich, “Preliminary Results Using the Pyroelectric Crystal Accelerator at West Point”, 21st International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2010), Renaissance Worthington Hotel Fort Worth, Texas, US , 8-13 August 2010.

  20. N. LiCausi, J. Clinton, Y. Danon, J.-Q. Lu, and I. Bhat, “Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Conformal Boron Thin Films on Deep RIE-Etched Si Substrates”, Presented at the 52nd Annual Electronic Materials Conference, Notre Dame, IN, June 23-25, 2010.

  21. Y. Danon, R. Block (emeritus), C. Romano, J. Thompson, “Fission Physics and Cross Section Measurements with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, Invited, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010. Proceedings in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 1649-1653.

  22. M. Rapp, Y. Danon, F. Saglime, Rian Bahran, Robert Block, Greg Leinweber, Devin Barry, Jeff Hoole, “Molybdenum and Zirconium Neutron Total Cross Section Measurements in the Energy Range of 0.5 to 20 MeV”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010. Proceeding in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 1745-1748.

  23. R. Dagan and B. Becker, Y. Danon, M. Rapp and D. Barry, G. Lohnert, “Modelling a Resonance Dependent Angular Distribution via DBRC in Monte Carlo Codes”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, 2010, Proceeding in Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 59, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 983-986.

  24. T. Z. Fullem, A. M. Kovanen, D. J. Gillich, Y. Danon, “Focused Ion Beam Production Using a Pyroelectric Crystal and a Resistive Glass Tube”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando Florida, October 25-31, 2009.

  25. A. M. Kovanen, D. J. Gillich, Y. Danon, “D-D Nuclear Fusion Using Different Sized Pyroelectric Crystals”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando Florida, October 25-31, 2009.

  26. Y. Danon, E. Liu, D. Barry, T. Ro, R. Dagan, “Benchmark Experiment of Neutron Resonance Scattering Models In Monte Carlo Codes”, International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2009).

  27. M. Rapp, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, F. Saglime, R. Bahran, G. Leinweber, D. P. Barry, N. Drindak, “High Energy Neutron Time of Flight Measurements of Carbon and Beryllium Samples at the RPI LINAC”, International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2009).

  28. Frank Saglime, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, Michael Rapp, and Rian Bahran, Devin Barry, Greg Leinweber, Noel Drindak, "High Energy Neutron Scattering Benchmark of Monte Carlo Computations", International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2009).

  29. Justin Dingley, Yaron Danon, Nicholas LiCausi, Jian-Qiang Lu and Ishwara B. Bhat, “Optimization Of A Novel Solid-State Self Powered Neutron Detector”, International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2009).

  30. Moreh, R.; Block, R. C.; Danon, Y., “Search For Anomalous n-p Scattering At 60 eV-140 keV”, Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy And Related Topics: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1090, pp. 102-106 (2009).

  31. Don Gillich, Yaron Danon, Andrew Kovanen, Bryan Herman, “Pyroelectric Crystal-Generated Neutron Production: Preliminary Results Using a Portable Vacuum System”, ANS annual meeting, Grand Sierra Resort and Casino Reno, Nevada, ANS Transaction no 99, p.283-384, November 9–13, (2008).

  32. C. Romano, Y. Danon and D. Beller, “Fuel Assembly Self Shielding of Interrogation Neutrons In A Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer”, Proc. of the Sixth ANS Intl. Top. Mtg on Nucl. Plant Inst., Control, and Human-Machine Interface Tech. (NPIC&HMIT 2009), American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL, 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-89448-067-6, on CD-ROM), 2009.

  33. Bryndol Sones, Yaron Danon, “Feasibility studies of Parametric X-rays in Medical Environment”, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2008), Ft Worth TX, October 10-15, (2008).

  34. Nicholas LiCausi, Justin Dingley, Yaron Danon, James J-Q. Lu and Ishwara B. Bhat, “A Novel Solid-State Self Powered Neutron Detector”, Accepted, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics X, SPIE Symposium on Optical Engineering + Applications which will be held 10-14 August 2008 in San Diego, CA, 2008

  35. B. Sones, Y. Danon, E. Blain, “Experiments with relativistic electrons producing tunable X-rays from Cu crystals”, ANS Transactions vol. 98, pp 395-397, 2008 ANS national meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

  36. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, R. Testa, H. Moore, Medical Isotope Production Using A 60 MeV Linear Electron Accelerator, NS Transactions vol. 98, pp 894-895, 2008 ANS national meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2008.

  37. Andrew Kovanen, Yaron Danon, Don Gillich, “X-Ray Production Using Stacked Pyroelectric Crystals”, ANS Transactions vol. 98, pp 406-407, 2008 ANS national meeting, Anaheim, CA 2008.

  38. Don Gillich, Yaron Danon, Andrew Kovanen, Bryan Herman, Will Labarre, “Tip Length Optimization for a Pyroelectric Crystal Neutron Source”, ANS Transactions vol. 98 pp 393-394, 2008 ANS national meeting, Anaheim, CA 2008.

  39. Don Gillich, Yaron Danon, Jeffrey A. Geuther, Becky Marus, Brian McDermott, “Deuterium Ionization For Pyroelectric Crystal Accelerators”, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society and the European Nuclear Society 2007 International Conference on Making The Renaissance Real, Volume 97, November 11-15, Washington, DC, 2007.

  40. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, R. Bahran, M. Rapp, F. Saglime, C. Romano, J. Thompson, D.P. Barry, N.J. Drindak, J. Hoole, G. Leinweber, “Nuclear Data Measurements at the RPI LINAC”, Proceedings of The Eighth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications and Utilization of Accelerators (AccApp07), Pocatello Idaho, July 30 – August 2, 2007.

  41. A. Sones, Y. Danon, “Thin metallic crystals for Parametric X-ray (PXR) production”, Transaction of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 96, p. 337, June 24-28, Boston, MA, 2007.

  42. X. George Xu, J Geuther, G Baker, S. Pal, Y Danon, TM Lu, P Ajayan, “Measurements of X-rays from Nanotubes and Nanorods”, Transaction of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 96, p. 368, June 24-28, Boston, MA, 2007.

  43. C. Romano, Y. Danon, R. Block, E. Blain, and E. Bond, “Measurements of fission fragment properties using RPI’s Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, April 22-27, 2007, Nice, France, editors O.Bersillon, F.Gunsing, E.Bauge, R.Jacqmin, and S.Leray, EDP Sciences, 2008, pp 371-374.

  44. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, M. Rapp, F. Saglime, D.P. Barry, N.J. Drindak, J. Hool, G. Leinweber, “High-Accuracy Filtered Neutron Beam and High-Energy Transmission Measurements at the Gaerttner Laboratory”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, April 22-27, 2007, Nice, France, editors O.Bersillon, F.Gunsing, E.Bauge, R.Jacqmin, and S.Leray, EDP Sciences, 2008, pp 401-402.

  45. G. Leinweber, D.P. Barry, J.A. Burke(ret.), N.J. Drindak, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, B.E. Moretti, “Measurements of elemental molybdenum and resonance parameter analysis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, April 22-27, 2007, Nice, France, editors O.Bersillon, F.Gunsing, E.Bauge, R.Jacqmin, and S.Leray, EDP Sciences, 2008, pp 507-508.

  46. Jeffrey Geuther, Yaron Danon, Kamron Fazel, “Recent Advances in Pyroelectric Radiation Generation”, Winter Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, ANS transactions vol. 95, November 12-16, Albuquerque, NM 2006.

  47. Bryndol Sones, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, “Production and application of a novel energy-tunable X-ray source at the RPI LINAC”, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on The Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, Texas USA, August 20 - 25, 2006, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, Volume 261, Issues 1-2, , Pages 98-101, 2007.

  48. Jeffrey A. Geuther and Yaron Danon, “Applications of Pyroelectric Particle Accelerators”, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on The Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, Texas USA, August 20 - 25, 2006, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, Volume 261, Issues 1-2, , Pages 110-113, 2007.

  49. Y. Danon, C. Romano, J. Thompson, T. Watson, R.C. Haight, S.A. Wender, D.J. Vieira, E. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, J.M. O’Donnell, A. Michaudon, T.A. Bredeweg, “Measurements with the High Flux Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer at LANL”, Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on The Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Fort Worth, Texas USA, August 20 - 25, 2006, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, Volume 261, Issues 1-2, , Pages 953-955, 2007.

  50. G Leinweber, DP Barry, MJ Trbovich, JA Burke, NJ Drindak, HD Knox, and RV Ballad, RC Block, Y Danon, LI Severnyak, “Resonance Parameter Measurements and Analysis of Gadolinium”, PHYSOR 2006, September 10-14, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2006.

  51. R. Moreh, R. C. Block and Y. Danon, “Search For Anomalous n-p Scattering At 60 eV - 140 keV”, 10th International Symposium on Radiation Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, 17-22 September, (2006).

  52. R. Moreh, R. C. Block and Y. Danon, “Filtered Monoenergetic Neutron Sources”, 10th International Symposium on Radiation Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, 17-22 September, (2006).

  53. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, and M. Neuman, “Neutron-proton Scattering and Quantum Entanglement”, International Conference Current Problems in Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy (NPAE06), Kyiv, Ukraine, May 29 - June 3, 2006.

  54. R. Moreh, R. C. Block and Y. Danon and M. Neuman, “Neutron-proton Scattering and Quantum Entanglement”, 2006 American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS2006), St. Charles, IL, June 18-22, (2006).

  55. Michael Rapp, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, "100 Meter Time of Flight System for Transmission Experiments", The American Nuclear Society’s 14th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, p. 351, Carlsbad New Mexico, USA. April 2-6, 2006 .

  56. Frank J. Saglime III, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, "Digital Data Acquisition System for Time of Flight Neutron Beam Measurements", The American Nuclear Society’s 14th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, p. 368, Carlsbad New Mexico, USA. April 3-6, 2006.

  57. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Yaron Danon, “Development of a Pyroelectric Neutron Source”, ANS Winter Meeting Washington, D.C, Transactions vol. 93. p. 491, November 13 – 17, 2005.

  58. R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, and M. Neuman, “Scattering of keV Neutrons and the problem of Quantum Entanglement”, Twelfth international Conference on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, University of Notre Dam, USA, September 4-9,2005.

  59. R. Moreh, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, M. Neuman, “Neutron Scattering and The Chemical Formula of Water”, The 6th International Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement Applications, McMaster University, June 20-24, 2005

  60. R. C. Haight, S. A. Wender, D. J. Vieira, E. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, J. M. O'Donnell, A. Michaudon, T. A. Bredeweg, D. Rochman, T. Granier, T. Ethvignot, C. Romano, Y. Danon, “Progress in the development of a lead slowing-down spectrometer at LANSCE”, The second joint meeting of the nuclear physic division of the American physical society and the physical society of Japan, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii, September 18-22, 2005.

  61. C. Romano, Y. Danon, R. C. Haight, S. A. Wender, D. J. Vieira, E. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, J. M. O'Donnell, A. Michaudon, T. A. Bredeweg, D. Rochman, T. Granier, T. Ethvignot, “Measurements of (n,alpha) Cross Section of Small Samples Using a Lead-Slowing-Down-Spectrometer”, AppAcc 2005, 29 August - 1 September 2005, Venice, Italy.

  62. R. Moreh, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, M. Neuman, “Neutron Scattering And The Chemical Formula of Water”, The 6th International Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement Applications, McMaster University, June 20-24th, 2005.

  63. R. C. Haight, S. A. Wender, J. M. O'Donnell, A. Michaudon, D. Vieira, J. M. Schwantes, T. A. Bredeweg, E. M. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, D. Rochman, T. Ethvignot4, T. Granier4, Y. Danon, and C. Romano, “Development of a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer at LANSCE”, ICANS-XVII 17th Meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources, April 25-29, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  64. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Yaron Danon, “Magnetic Deflection of Electrons and Ions Produced by Pyroelectric Crystals”, ANS annual meeting, San Diego CA, June, (2005).

  65. B. Sones, Y. Danon and R. Block, “The effects of electron scattering on the absolute Paremetric X-ray (PXR) yield calculations”, ANS annual meeting, San Diego CA, June, (2005).

  66. D. Rochman, R. C. Haight, S. A. Wender, J. M. O'Donnell, A. Michaudon, K. Huff, D. J. Vieira, E. Bond, R. S. Rundberg, A. Kronenberg, J. Wilhelmy, T. A. Bredeweg, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier, M. Petit, Y. Danon, “First Measurements with a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer at WNR, International conference on nuclear data for science and technology (ND2004)”, Santa Fe, NM, Sep. 26 – Oct. 1, (2004).

  67. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Yaron Danon, “Pyroelectric Electron Acceleration: Improvements and Future Applications”, ANS Winter Meeting Washington, D.C, November 14 – 18, 2004.

  68. Dimitri Rochman, Robert C. Haight, Steve A. Wender, John M. O'Donnell1, Andre Michaudon, David J. Vieira, Robert S. Rundberg, Evelyn Bond, Jerry B. Wilhelmy, Todd A. Bredeweg, Thierry Ethvignot, Thierry Granier, Michael Petit, John A. Becker, Kenneth Moody, Yaron Danon, “Development of a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer for neutron induced fission cross-section measurements on ultra small samples at LANSCE”, 18th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2004), Ft Worth TX, October 10-15, (2004).

  69. Jeffrey Geuther and Yaron Danon, “Increasing X-Ray Energy By Paring Pyroelectric Crystals, (Invited)”, 18th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2004), Ft Worth TX, October 10-15, (2004).

  70. M. J. Trbovich, D. P. Barry, R. E. Slovacek, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, G. Leinweber, “Hafnium Resonance Parameter Analysis Using Neutron Capture and Transmission Experiments”, International conference on nuclear data for science and technology (ND2004), Santa Fe, NM, Sep. 26 – Oct. 1, (2004).

  71. Richard Testa and Herbert Moore, Robert Block, Nathaniel Bobeck and Yaron Danon, “Photonuclear Production of Scarce Research Isotopes”, Workshops on Targetry and Target Chemistry #10, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, August 13-15, (2004).

  72. Christopher P. Mulligan, Changqing Lee, and Yaron Danon, “Characterization of Magnetron Sputtered Coatings By Pulsed Eddy Current Techniques”, The 31st Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 25-30 July (2004).

  73. B. Sones, Y. Danon, and R. Block, “Novel X-Ray Imaging Opportunities for the RPI Linear Accelerator's Tunable, Quasi-monochromatic X-ray Source”, Transaction No 90., 2004 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 13-17, (2004).

  74. D. P. Barry, M. J. Trbovich, Y. Danon, R. C. Block, R. E. Slovacek, G. Leinweber, J. A. Burke, N. J. Drindak, “Neutron Capture and Total Cross-Section Measurements and Resonance Parameter Analysis of Neodymium from 1.0 eV TO 500 eV”, The Tenth International Conference on Radiation Shielding and Radiation Protection & Shielding Topical (ICRS10 / RPS-2004), Madeira, Portugal, May 9-14, (2004).

  75. B. Sones, Y. Danon, and R. Block, “LiF Crystal Advantages in Parametric X-Ray (PXR) Production”, Transactions of the ANS/ENS, New Orleans, Louisiana, Volume 89, (2003).

  76. Jeffrey A. Geuther, Michael Z. Podowski, Yaron Danon and Robert C. Block, “Development of a Nanotracer Method to Characterize a Nanoparticle Coating”, Transactions of the ANS/ENS, New Orleans, Louisiana, Volume 89, (2003).

  77. T.J. Donovan, Y. Danon, “HTGR Unit Fuel Pebble k-infinity Results Using Chord Length Sampling”, Transactions of the ANS/ENS, New Orleans, Louisiana, Volume 89, 2003.

  78. Richard Testa, Herbert Moore, Robert Block, Nathaniel Bobeck, Yaron Danon, “Photonuclear Production of Medically Significant Radionuclides”, American Chemical Society's 226th National Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, (2003).

  79. B. Sones, Y. Danon, and R. Block, “Advances in Parametric X-Ray Production at the RPI Linear Accelerator”, ANS 2003 Annual Meeting, ANS Transactions vol. 88, P. 352-353, Jun (2003).

  80. Jeffrey Geuther, Yaron Danon, Frank Saglime, Bryndol Sones, “Electron Acceleration for X-ray Production Using Paired Pyroelectric Crystals”, abstracts of the sixth International Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerator Technology, AccApp’03, p. 591, San Diego, June 1-5, (2003).

  81. Yaron Danon and Changqing Lee, “Characterization of Ta thin coating using eddy current method”, ASNT Conference and 12 Annual Research Symposium, Orlando Florida March 10-14, (2003)

  82. Richard Testa, Herbert Moore, Robert Block, Nathaniel Bobeck, Yaron Danon, “Photonuclear Production of In-111”, American Chemical Society's 225th National Meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 23-27, 2003).

  83. T.J. Donovan, T.M. Sutton and Y. Danon, “Implementation Of Chord Length Sampling For Transport Through A Binary Stochastic Mixture”, M&C 2003, A Century in Review, A Century A new, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, April 6-11, 2003, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2003).

  84. M Lubert, NC Francis, Y Danon, RC Block and Shangwu Wang, “The RPI Multiplicity Detector Response to g Ray Cascades in 149Sm (n,g) and 150Sm (n,g) Reactions”, Proc. Of the 11th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics Pruhonice, Czech Republic, September 2 - 6, 2002, pp 738-742 World Scientific Publications Co. (2003).

  85. Y. Danon, B.A. Sones and R.C. Block, “Optimization of Parametric X-Ray Production”, Transactions, 2002 Summer ANS Meeting Hollywood, Florida June 9–13, 2002 volume 86, p. 240 (2002).

  86. Y. Danon, B.A. Sones and R.C. Block, “Novel X-Ray Source At The RPI LINAC”, Transactions, 2002 Summer ANS Meeting Hollywood, Florida June 9–13, 2002 volume 86, p.185 (2002).

  87. R.C Block, P. Brand, Y. Danon, “Radiation Research at the RPI LINAC: Capabilities and Applications”, CIRMS workshop on Dosimetry Hardness Testing, Detectors and Computational Methods, October 30, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, (2000).

  88. Block, R.C.; Danon, Y.; Slovacek, R.E, “Neutron time-of-flight measurements at the Rensselaer LINAC”, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute conference Taejon (Korea, Republic of) 14-23 Apr (1997).

  89. M. S. Moore and Y. Danon, “Resonance Enhancement in the Accelerator Transmutation of 1.3-day 232Pa and 2.1-day 238Pa”, International Conference on Accelerator-Driven Transmutation Technologies and Applications, Las Vegas NV, July 25-29, (1994)

  90. M. S. Moore, P. E. Koehler, P. E. Littleton, G. G. Miller, M. A. Ott, L. J. Rowton, W. A. Taylor, J. B. Wilhelmy, M. A. Yates, A. D. Carlson, Y. Danon, R. Harper, R. Hilko, N. W. Hill, “Development of A Technique for Measuring Fission Cross Sections of Interest to Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW)”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, (May 1994).

  91. Y. Danon, N. W. Hill, R. W. Hoff, R. W. Lougheed, P. E. Koehler and M. S. Moore, “Measurement and Analysis of the Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Section of 247Cm, 250Cf and 254Es”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, (May 1994).

  92. R. C. Block, J. A. Burke, Y. Danon, N. J. Drindak, F. Finer, J. A. Helm, K. W. Seemann, R. E. Slovacek, C. Werner and G. Youk, “Neutron Time-of-Flight Measurements at The Rensselaer LINAC”, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, (May 1994).

  93. R. E. Slovacek, R.C. Block, Y. Danon, C. Werner, G. Youk, J. A. Burke, N. J.Drindak, F. Finer, J. A. Helm and K. W. Seemann, “Neutron Cross Section Measurements at The Rensselaer LINAC”., ANS 1994 Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics, Reactor Physic Faces the 21st Century, Knoxville, Tennessee, (April 1994).

  94. Y. Danon, R.E. Slovacek and R. C. Block, “The Enhanced Thermal Neutron Target at The RPI LINAC”, Proceedings of the ANS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, (1993).

  95. Mark .J. Embrechts and Y. Danon, "Determining the fractal dimension of a time series with a neural net," in Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, C.H. Dagli, L.I. Burke, B.R. Fernandez, and J. Ghosh, Eds., ASME Press, New York,Vol. 3, pp. 897-902, (1993).

  96. Yaron Danon and Mark. J. Embrechts, “"Least Squares Fitting" Using Artificial Neural Networks”, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, vol 2, ASME press (1992).

  97. MS. Moore, P. E. Koehler, A. Michaudon, A. Schelberg, Y. Danon, R. E. Slovacek, R. C. Block, R. W. Lougheed, R. W. Hoff, “Experimental Assessment of the performance of a proposed lead slowing-down spectrometer at WNR/PSR”, AIP conf. proc. 238, capture gamma ray spectroscopy. Pacific Grove, CA 1990, American Inst. of Physics p. 253 (1991).

  98. Y. Danon, R.E. Slovacek, R.C Block, R. W. Lougheed, R. W. Hoff, M. S. Moore, “Fission Cross-Section Measurements of 247Cm, 254Es, and 250Cf from 0.1 eV to 80 keV”, American Nuclear Society (ANS) annual meeting. Nashville, TN (USA). 10-14 Jun (1990).

Book Chapters

Robert C. Block, Yaron Danon, Frank Gunsing, Robert C. Haight, “Neutron Cross Section Measurements”, chapter one in Dan Cacuci (Editor), “Handbook of Nuclear Engineering”, vol 1, Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-98150-5, 2010.

Invited Talks

  1. J. Clinton, Y. Danon, J. Huang, R. Dahal, J. Lu, I. Bhat, “Development of A Self Biased High Efficiency Solid-State Thermal Neutron Detector”, presented at DOE NE Annual Fuel Cycle Technologies Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne Illinois, November 9, 2011.

  2. Y. Danon, J. Huang, R. Dahal, J. Clinton, J. Lu and I. Bhat, “Development of A Self Biased High Efficiency Solid-State Thermal Neutron Detector”, MPACT Working Group Meeting, Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, September 11-13, 2011.

  3. Y. Danon, “Report on U.S. Experimental Nuclear Data Activities”, Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) meeting 2011, June 3-4, NEA Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 2011.

  4. Y. Danon, B. Becker, J. Thompson, N. Thompson, D. Beller, S. Bowyer, A. Gavron, G. Imel, “Experiments and Calculations of a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer for Assay of Used Nuclear Fuel”, MPACT Working Group Meeting, May 4-5, 2011, Albuquerque, NM, May 3-5, 2011.

  5. Y. Danon, “Nuclear Data Research at RPI”, 2011 RPI Nuclear Data (RND) Symposium for Criticality Safety and Reactor Applications”, April 27, 2011

  6. Yaron Danon, Nicholas LiCausi, Justin Clinton, James Lu, Ishwara Bhat, "Development of A Self Biased High Efficiency Solid-State Neutron Detector for MPACT Applications", MPACT Working Group Meeting, Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, September 15-16, 2010.

  7. Y. Danon, “Report on U.S.A. Experimental Activities”, Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) meeting 2010, June 3-4, NEA Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France., 2010.

  8. Y. Danon, “The Nuclear Data Program at Rensselaer”, Measurements and Models of Nuclear Reactions 2010 (EFNUDAT 2010) Workshop, Paris, May 25-27, Paris, France 2010.

  9. Y. Danon, R. Block (emeritus), C. Romano, J. Thompson, “Fission Physics and Cross Section Measurements with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, Invited, International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2010), Korea, 26-30 April, (2010).

  10. Y. Danon, “Report on U.S.A. Experimental Activities”, Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC) meeting 2010, June 3-4, NEA Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, (2010).

  11. Y. Danon, “The Nuclear Data Program at Rensselaer”, Measurements and Models of Nuclear Reactions 2010 (EFNUDAT 2010) Workshop, Paris, May 25-27, Paris, France (2010).

  12. Yaron Danon, Nicholas LiCausi, Justin Clinton, James Lu, Ishwara Bhat, “Development of an Efficient Solid-State Self Powered Thermal Neutron Detector”, Academic Research Initiative Grantees Conference, Washington DC, April 12-14, (2010).

  13. Y. Danon, “Nuclear Data Research at the RPI Gearttener LINAC laboratory”, Chalk River Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) Canada, 9-11 April 2010.

  14. Y. Danon, Pyroelectric Crystal Electron and Ion Accelerators for X-ray and Neutron Production ,GE Global Research Center Niskayuna, NY, 2009.

  15. Y. Danon, Pyroelectric Crystal Accelerators and Table Top Fusion, Opening talk, Photorefractive Materials, Effects, and Devices Control of Light and Matter Conference, Bad Honnef, Germany, June 11-14, 2009.

  16. Y. Danon, “Nuclear Data Measurements at the Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory at RPI”, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2009.

  17. Y. Danon, “Fission Measurements with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, LANL-LLNL Fission Workshop, Feb 3-4, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, 2009.

  18. Y. Danon, R. Block, Z. Blain C. Romano, J., Thompson, “Measurements with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer”, Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility workshop, Maale Hachamisha (Jerusalem), Israel, October 27-29, 2008.

  19. Y. Danon, “Report on U.S.A. Experimental Activities”, Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC), Tokai, Japan, June 5 2008.

  20. Y. Danon, The Nuclear Data Measurements Program at the RPI LINAC, Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University Israel,, August 13 – August 2, 2007.

  21. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, R. Bahran, M. Rapp, F. Saglime, C. Romano, J. Thompson, D.P. Barry, N.J. Drindak, J. Hoole, G. Leinweber, Nuclear Data Measurements at the RPI LINAC, The Eighth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications and Utilization of Accelerators (AccApp07), Pocatello Idaho, July 30 – August 2, 2007.

  22. Y. Danon, R. C. Haight, S. A. Wender, D. J. Vieira, E. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, J. M. O’Donnell, A. Michaudon, T. A. Bredeweg, T. Schurman, D. Rochman, T. Granier, T. Ethvignot, J. Taieb, J. A. Beckere, C. Romano, J. Thompson, “Cross section measurements with the LANL Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer”, Los Alamos Neutron Science Center User Group meeting 8, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 10-12, 2007.

  23. Y. Danon, R.C. Block, N. Francis, M. Lubert, M. Rapp, F. Saglime, C. Romano, D.P Barry, J.A. Burke, N.J. Drindak, J. Hoole, G. Leinweber, “Cross Section Measurements at the RPI Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory”, Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor Applications (Wonder) 2006, 9-11 October 2006, Chateau de Cadarache, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance.

  24. Jeffrey A. Geuther and Yaron Danon, “Applications of Pyroelectric Particle Accelerators”, 19th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI), Fort Worth, Texas USA, August 20 - 25, 2006.

  25. Y. Danon, C. Romano, J. Thompson, T. Watson, R.C. Haight, S.A. Wender, D.J. Vieira, E. Bond, J. B. Wilhelmy, J.M. O’Donnell, A. Michaudon, T.A. Bredeweg, “Measurements with the High Flux Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer at LANL”, 19th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI), Fort Worth, Texas USA, August 20 - 25, 2006.

  26. Y. Danon, “The Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory Review and Current Activity”, ORELA workshop, Oak Ridge, TN. July 14-15, 2005.

  27. Jeffrey Geuther and Yaron Danon, “Increasing X-Ray Energy By Paring Pyroelectric Crystals”, 18th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI 2004), Ft Worth TX, October 10-15, 2004.

  28. Y. Danon, D. Barry, R. C. Block, , N. Francis, M. Lubert, M. Trbovich, John Burke, Noel Drindak, Greg Leinweber, “Measurements With the RPI Multiplicity Detector”, DANCE workshop, Santa Fe, NM, February 2-4, 2004.

  29. T.J. Donovan, Y. Danon, “HTGR Unit Fuel Pebble k-infinity Results Using Chord Length Sampling”, ANS/ENS International Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, New Orleans, LA, November 16 - 20, 2003.

  30. Bryndol Sones, Yaron Danon, Robert Block, “Experiments with a LINAC Generated Quasi-Monochromatic Parametric X-rays Source”, Workshop on Medical and Biological Imaging with Novel X-ray Beams, Idaho Accelerator Center, August 7-8, 2003

  31. Y. Danon and R. Block, “Differential And Quasi Integral Measurements At The Gaerttner LINAC” , Workshop on Nuclear Data Needs for Generation IV Systems, Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 24-25, 2003.

  32. Y. Danon, “Development of Parametric X-Ray Source”, Invited Talk, NYS Northeastern section of ANS, RPI, Jan 2003.

  33. Y. Danon, “Development of a LINAC driven Parametric X-Ray Source”, Invited Talk, Lasers Seminar, Department of Physics Ben Gurion University, Israel, December 2002.

  34. Y. Danon, “Development of a Practical Parametric X-Ray Source”, Invited Talk, CSRRI Colloquium, Illinois Institute of Technology, July 11, 2002.

Media Coverage

Earthquake in Japan March 2011

Clay Dillow, "Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?", Popular Science, Posted 03.17.2011.

Funding
"Rensselaer Secures $1.5 Million From the National Nuclear Security Administration To Launch New Nuclear Safety Research Program and Lab", RPI web page,

Larry Greenemeie, "Neutron dance: What happens at the heart of a nuclear reactor?", Scientific American, Apr 21, 2011.

“ RPI professor receives grant for experiments”, The Daily Gazette (Schenectady), August 20, 2009.

Medical Isotopes
Raloff, J., "Desperately seeking moly: Unreliable supplies of feedstock for widely used medical imaging isotope prompt efforts to develop U.S. sources". Science News, 176: 16–20. doi: 10.1002/scin.5591760717 (2009).

No Anomaly in Proton Scattering
“Water's Chemical Formula May Always Be H2O”, Physics News Update, 732 #2, May 24 2005.

“Water Fight”, American Scientist, Volume 93, Number 5, September –October 2005.

Rensselaer Experiment Finds Water Molecules Are Always H2O, Physorg.com, June 13, 2005.

Double Crystal Fusion
"RPI claims battery-fueled, room-temp fusion", EETimes, 02/20/2006.

"Double Crystal Fusion' Could Pave The Way For Portable Device", Science Daily, February 14, 2006.

"Tabletop nuclear fusion device developed", Physorg.com, February 13, 2006.

Sveznadar 28-2006-02-19.

"Besides the Starship Enterprise, dilithium crystals power cold fusion", Digital TV DesignLine, February 20, 2006.