Tuesday, December 14, 2021

"Tetra-Neutron"? Sure, why not.


Article here, with actual links to the actual paper.  Go & read (it's short), come back for commentary.

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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