Bio
Kevin Berry is a detector scientist in the detector group in the Neutron Technologies Division. He previously served as team lead for the gas detector team. During his tenure, the gas detector team successfully delivered and installed detector systems for several large-scale projects including the final two SING II instruments (CORELLI, USANS), NOMAD, Bio-SANS, WAND2, HIDRA, ARCS, and VULCAN. Additionally, they maintain operational support for all helium-3 gas-based detectors at SNS and HFIR.
He has over 30 years’ experience in radiation detector R&D and production. Since coming to ORNL in 2009, his focus has been on detectors which use helium-3 gas. This includes linear position sensitive detectors (LPSD), single ended tubes, and 2D wire chambers with interpolating cathode, delay line, and preamp per wire readout. He has also worked with neutron sensitive microchannel plate (MCP) and scintillating lithium glass technologies. Previous experience includes cryogenic HPGe x- and gamma ray detector R&D and production: high-rate detection systems for EXAFS at synchrotrons, thin Schottky dead layers for soft x-ray detection, and segmented ‘Clover’ systems for nuclear spin spectroscopy studies. He also supported the HgI2 detector development program, including the vapor phase crystal growth microgravity experiment aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1992 (IML-1).
Kevin has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from U.C. Santa Barbara and U.T. Knoxville, respectively.