Neutron elastic and inelastic cross sections in paraffin. Credit: The European Physical Journal H (2022). DOI: 10.1140/epjh/s13129-022-00042-z One way to better understand an atom is to shoot a particle at it and infer the atom’s properties based on how the particle bounces off it. In the mid-1930s, the physicist ...
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