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Some questions on neutrons, in general, that is, not in an extreme gravity well. I know they are a pain to study, being neutral your normal tools, electromagnet
by somat 4y ago
Some questions on neutrons, in general, that is, not in an extreme gravity well. I know they are a pain to study, being neutral your normal tools, electromagnetic fields, don't do much to them so they are hard to wrangle, mostly you hear about hot neutrons, that is ones with sizable kinetic energy, but the idea here is cold neutrons.
Is there any way to generate/accumulate/study cold neutrons? I assume they don't like to stick together. For example, the polyethylene brick shielding use on many fusors, it it accumulating free neutrons?
- jiggawatts 4y agoYes! You can cool neutrons down to the point that you can collect them in a container, like a gas. They even "slosh around". Unfortunately because of the 10.3 minute half-life of free neutrons, this is a hideously radioactive gas that is dangerous to be anywhere near.