MoNA Collaboration at the 2025 American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics

The MoNA Collaboration had a strong presence at the 2025 American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics (APS/DNP) which was held on October 17-20, 2025 at the Hilton Chicago hotel in Chicago, Illinois.

A total of 23 combined oral and poster presentations on MoNA-related science or by a member of the MoNA Collaboration were delivered throughout the meeting, covering a wide range of topics that included new detector technologies, multi-neutron systems, novel materials and manufacturing processes for nuclear physics detectors, nuclear reaction, applications of advanced statistics and machine learning methods in nuclear physics, nuclear structure studies, instrumentation and measurements, low energy particle detectors and particle tracking, as well as in education and outreach. The presentations were delivered by faculty, postdocs, and students (graduate, undergraduate and high school). The contribution of the Collaboration also extended beyond presentations as several members chaired various sessions throughout the conference.

Session	Presentation title
D05	Extracting the nuclear charge distribution from electron scattering
	The 2025 Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation: Exploring the Nuclear Matter
	Low-energy nuclear physics program with the Tandem Van De Graaff Accelerator at Western Michigan University
	Physics Immersion, Simulation of the angular distribution with the MoNA-LISA neutron detector
E05	Global analysis of Rutherford scattering data from the PING 2023-2025 cohort
	PYXIS Detector Support Structure
	Probing neutron-rich nuclei along the dripline with PYXIS
	PYXIS neutron detector prototype: from raw events to physics
E06	Next-Generation Neutron Detector: Study of Position Resolution via Machine Learning
G05	Mapping the Invisible: Modeling Nuclear Densities for Rare Isotope Analysis
	Software to predict and analyze neutron scattering patterns in the MoNA and PYXIS Array
	Simulating Quantum Entanglement Through Photon and Neutron Detection
G10	Aerogel layer embedded gaseous electron multiplier
H01	The comparison in counts from PYXIS detector prototypes and MoNA detector bars
	Measuring 12C(n,x) Cross Sections with Diamond Detectors
	Configuring an NGn Prototype Detector using Cosmic Muons for CNN Training and Testing
	Simulation Validation of Neutron Interaction with SiPMs
K12	Optical matrix optimization for the study of unbound nuclei
	Investigating Nuclear Matter Radii Extraction with the MoNA-LISA-Sweeper Setup at FRIB
	Probing neutron-rich prefragment distributions for 9Be(32Mg,X) at 86 MeV/u
L10	Next Generation Neutron Detector Development
N06	Characterizing silicon photomultipliers for a next generation neutron detector
T12	Nuclear radii and nuclear structure with the MoNA Collaboration