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an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton

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However, the traditional neutron moderation theory of modern physics of nuclear reactors due to lack of alternative except for computer simulations, is based on the above analytical solution of the kinematic problem of elastic neutron scattering on a nucleus, which is obtained for the case when the nucleus scattering rests in the "L"--system, that is the traditional theory of neutron moderation neglects the thermal motion of nuclei of the moderating medium, which is physically acceptable, if we assume that the kinetic energies of moderated neutrons are much higher than the energies of thermal motion of the nuclei.
After the mantle explodes out of the super nova, the core is left as a neutron star and starts to oscillate about its equilibrium of gravity and pressure.
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The researchers compared this mass with predictions in various computer models and determined that zinc-82 is probably absent from neutron stars.
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The researchers expected the neutron star to have roughly one and a half times the mass of the Sun.
By analyzing Chandra's X-ray spectrum - akin to a fingerprint of energy - and applying it to theoretical models, Ho and his colleague Craig Heinke, from the University of Alberta, determined that the neutron star in Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, has an ultra-thin coating of carbon.
Making the plutonium bomb-building process especially difficult is the problem that Rhodes cites as the most difficult task in the Manhattan Project from the scientists' perspective: taking a hollow sphere of plutonium, crushing its 30 pounds into a softball sized compacted sphere, and releasing a stream of neutrons within it on a timetable of a few microseconds.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Parts 1 and 2) contains papers from the International Conference on Precision Measurements with Slow Neutrons held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, April 5-7, 2004.
The neutron scattering method is widely used for measuring the water content along a soil profile, and its change over time.
One of the several methods that use the thermoluminescence phenomenon for individual neutron dosimetry method is the albedo dosimeter method, that is-the back-scattering of neutrons from the body.