Yaron Danon

Professor, Edward E. Hood Jr. Chair in Nuclear Engineering, NE Program Director, and Director, Gaerttner Linear Accelerator Center (LINAC)

About


Dr. Yaron Danon is a Professor in the department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), he holds the Edward E. Hood Jr. Chair in Nuclear Engineering, and the Director of the Nuclear Engineering Program. He received both his MS and PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Science from RPI.

Dr. Danon is the Director of the Gaerttner Electron Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center at RPI, which houses a powerful 60 MeV pulsed electron LINAC used primarily as an intense pulsed neutron and gamma source. Dr. Danon’s nuclear data research group develops methods and performs experiments to measure neutron induced reactions and cross sections. Dr. Danon is the Chairman of the Measurements Committee of the US Cross Section Evaluation Working Group (CSEWG) and reports on US measurement activity to the Working Party on International Nuclear Data Evaluation Co-operation (WPEC). Dr. Danon is also a member of the Nuclear Data Advisory Group (NDAG) which advises the US DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) on issues relating to nuclear data. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

Dr. Danon’s group develops novel radiation detectors, data acquisition systems, and data analysis methods for nuclear data application and other applications. This research includes the development of novel high efficiency, large area, zero bias solid-state neutron detectors.

In addition to nuclear data activities, Dr. Danon is a pioneer in pyroelectric crystal acceleration. Together with his students he developed x-ray and neutron sources that utilize simple heating of these crystals and thus eliminate the requirement for high voltage power supply. Current research includes laser or light driven crystal-based accelerators. Dr. Danon published over 112 articles in archived journals, 173 in peer review conferences, and presented more than 124 invited talks. He advised 25 Ph.D., 10 M.S, and 6 M.Eng. students that graduated; he currently advises 6 Ph.D. students and teaches courses on radiation technology and physics of nuclear reactors.

Updated 3/2024

Research

Other Focus Areas

Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Data, Novel neutron and x-ray sources, Novel radiation detectors.

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https://pages.github.rpi.edu/danony/html/
https://hahn.ne.rpi.edu/public_html/

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Yaron Danon has 225 indexed publications in the subjects of Physics and Astronomy, Energy, Engineering.

Amanda M. Lewis, Allan D. Carlson, Donald L. Smith, Devin P. Barry, Robert C. Block, Stephen Croft, Yaron Danon, Manfred Drosg, Michal W. Herman, Denise Neudecker, Naohiko Otuka, Henrik Sjöstrand, Vladimir Sobes
EPJ Nuclear Sciences and Technologies
, 9
, 2023
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Amanda M. Lewis, Denise Neudecker, Allan D. Carlson, Donald L. Smith, Ian Thompson, Anton Wallner, Devin P. Barry, Lee A. Bernstein, Robert C. Block, Stephen Croft, Yaron Danon, Manfred Drosg, Robert C. Haight, Michal W. Herman, Hye Young Lee, Naohiko Otuka, Henrik Sjöstrand, Vladimir Sobes
EPJ Nuclear Sciences and Technologies
, 9
, 2023
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Jesse M. Brown, Devin P. Barry, Robert C. Block, Amanda Youmans, Hyun Choun, Adam Ney, Ezekiel Blain, Michael J. Rapp, Yaron Danon
Nuclear Science and Engineering
, 2023
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D. Fritz, Y. Danon, K. Ramic, C. W. Chapman, J. M. Brown, G. Arbanas, M. Rapp, T. H. Trumbull, M. Zerkle, J. Holmes, P. Brain, A. Ney, S. Singh, K. Cook, B. Wang
Annals of Nuclear Energy
, 183
, 2023
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A. Ney, Y. Danon, M. L. Zerkle, P. Brain, D. Fritz, G. Siemers, S. Singh
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
, 1048
, 2023
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D. Fritz, Y. Danon, M. Rapp, T. H. Trumbull, M. Zerkle, J. Holmes, C. W. Chapman, G. Arbanas, J. M. Brown, K. Ramic, X. Hu, S. Singh, A. Ney, P. Brain, K. Cook, B. Wang
Annals of Nuclear Energy
, 181
, 2023
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Karolina Kolos, Vladimir Sobes, Ramona Vogt, Catherine E. Romano, Michael S. Smith, Lee A. Bernstein, David A. Brown, Mary T. Burkey, Yaron Danon, Mohamed A. Elsawi, Bethany L. Goldblum, Lawrence H. Heilbronn, Susan L. Hogle, Jesson Hutchinson, Ben Loer, Elizabeth A. McCutchan, Matthew R. Mumpower, Ellen M. O'Brien, Catherine Percher, Patrick N. Peplowski, Jennifer J. Ressler, Nicolas Schunck, Nicholas W. Thompson, Andrew S. Voyles, William Wieselquist, Michael Zerkle
Physical Review Research
, 4
, 2022
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Kumar S. Mohindroo, Yaron Danon, Ezekiel Blain, Matthew Devlin, Keegan J. Kelly
Annals of Nuclear Energy
, 165
, 2022
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E. Blain, Y. Danon, D. P. Barry, B. E. Epping, A. Youmans, M. J. Rapp, A. M. Daskalakis, R. C. Block
Nuclear Science and Engineering
, 196
, 2022
, pp.121-132
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Chris W. Chapman, Kemal Ramić, Xunxiang Hu, Jesse M. Brown, Goran Arbanas, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Douglas L. Abernathy, Luke Daemen, Anibal (Timmy) J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Yongqiang Cheng, Matthew B. Stone, Li (Emily) Liu, Yaron Danon
Annals of Nuclear Energy
, 157
, 2021
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