NSF Awards $1.2M to Collaboration to Build LISA

The MoNA Collaboration has received a collaborative multi-institution MRI grant to construct the Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA).  LISA, another large neutron detector, will join the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) and the superconducting dipole Sweeper magnet in the N2 vault.  The award, totaling approximately $1.2M, was made to nine of the Collaboration’s undergraduate institutions (CMU, Concordia, Gettysburg, Hope, IUSB, OWU, Rhodes, Wabash, and Westmont) and will continue the Collaboration’s involvement of undergraduate researchers in cutting-edge studies of unstable neutron-rich nuclei.  With MoNA-LISA, the Collaboration will be able to more effectively study nuclei with large decay energies and more efficiently measure decays involving multiple neutrons.