Strong case for neutrons

Neutrons for rafts, rafts for neutrons.

The determination of the structure of membrane rafts is a challenging issue in biology. The selection of membrane components both in the longitudinal and transverse directions plays a major role as it determines the creation of stable or tunable platforms that host interactions with components of the outer environment. We focus here on the possibility to apply neutron scattering to the study of...

Neutrons for Research

The “higgs” from Anti-neutrons and Neutrons

The new anti-neutron, first proposed in 2011 [16], and ordinary neutrons, are both without electric charge, and are therefore rather difficult to accelerate and/or impact together in a high energy collider sufficient to cause annihilation, and thus create a 100% energy “Higgs” styled Boson, such Bosons arguably representing all of the mass in the universe. This very high energy impact combinati...

Cross Section for “Ultracold” Neutrons

Very cold neutrons (typical wavelengths are about 102 Ä) are available by recently developed techniques 2. The features of the scattering of these “ultracold” neutrons are investigated in the present paper discussing a few examples of magnetic scattering. The diffraction of neutrons by the vortex lattice in superconductors is treated as an example of elastic scattering, while in most other case...

What Are Neutrons Needed For

If you want to see an object, you have to illuminate it. If you want to discern details of an object, you will have to illuminate it with "light" of a wavelength equal to or smaller than the distance between the object details you are interested in. For most solids (or condensed media), such details of interest to physicists (for example, lattice sites, liquids, colloids, plastics, polymer and ...