Neutrons and magnetism

Interfacial magnetism in complex oxide heterostructures probed by neutrons and x-rays.

Magnetic complex-oxide heterostructures are of keen interest because a wealth of phenomena at the interface of dissimilar materials can give rise to fundamentally new physics and potentially valuable functionalities. Altered magnetization, novel magnetic coupling and emergent interfacial magnetism at the epitaxial layered-oxide interfaces are under intensive investigation, which shapes our unde...

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...

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...

Imaging and Neutrons 2006

Neutrons and Neutron Generators

This article was originally intended as a brief introduction to the article by Richard Hull on the Farnsworth/Hirsch “fusor.” However, as there has been some interest by a number of subscribers in neutron generators, I decided to provide a somewhat more lengthy tutorial on the reactions that produce neutrons, some practical applications of neutrons, and a few of the various types of devices tha...