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librastevetoday at 1:08 PM1 replyview on HN

At ISIS (Oxford neutron source)…

Spallation generation: High-energy protons (~800 MeV) hit a heavy target, releasing a wide spectrum of fast neutrons up to hundreds of MeV. These are then moderated down to useful energies for experiments.

It’s not the LHC, sure. But I don’t see any reason (apart from “why bother”) why they can’t do spallation in Geneva. OK maybe there’s a cooling problem…


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raverbashingtoday at 3:53 PM

Spallation is the easy part

But neutrons can't go around a tube being guided by magnetic fields

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