In the world of nuclear physics, protons often take the spotlight. But now, for the first time, the neutron has stepped into ...

Fast neutrons for atomic displacement research are produced by both the reactor and the 5.5 MV Pulsed van-de-Graaff accelerator. For research and evaluations requiring fast neutrons fluences with ...

At the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) that work never stops. While you’re sleeping, a five-person team monitors an accelerator to keep it running constantly. “Whenever you're talking to ...

patients are exposed to a low-energy neutron beam from a nuclear reactor or, in recent years, a large machine called an accelerator. The boron absorbs these neutrons, generating high-energy ...

10-years-in-the-making detector installed in Experimental Hall B at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. "We detected the neutron for the first time in ...

Neutrons are very useful to material probes and can be created in reactors or by accelerators. The most intense accelerator-based neutron sources are called spallation sources and use a process that ...

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron ...

TAE Life Sciences is developing a next-generation boron neutron capture therapy for cancer. After recently introducing Alphabeam, a compact and affordable accelerator-based neutron system suitable ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...