OK, got all that? It does seem likely that this group has managed to make atoms (and I use that term very loosely here) of neutronium. That and an equal amount of carbon-10 as a by-product, which is pretty cool all by itself, by smacking two lithium-7 nuclei together. I'd like to see a confirming experiment though. It ought to be pretty easy to do with a time-of-flight chamber, a fat E-dE diode detector, and some elementary kinematic deconvolution. Interesting stuff.
Not actual size.
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