The tetra-neutron – representation of the nuclear reaction with coins (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

The tetra-neutron – representation of the nuclear reaction with coins

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In the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator of the Maier-Leibnitz laboratory on the Garching research campus a team of physicists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) bombarded a lithium-7 target with lithium-7 atomic nuclei, accelerated to 12 percent of the speed of light. All measurement results indicate that their experiments produced carbon-10 and the sought-after tetra-neutron.

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Thomas Faestermann / TUM

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