{"id":199993,"date":"2024-11-23T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/accessing-the-lesser-known-nucleon-new-neutron-measurement-can-help-physicists-learn-about-nucleon-structure-and-spin"},"modified":"2024-11-23T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:29:14","slug":"accessing-the-lesser-known-nucleon-new-neutron-measurement-can-help-physicists-learn-about-nucleon-structure-and-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/accessing-the-lesser-known-nucleon-new-neutron-measurement-can-help-physicists-learn-about-nucleon-structure-and-spin","title":{"rendered":"Accessing the lesser known nucleon: New neutron measurement can help physicists learn about nucleon structure and spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accessing-the-lesser-known-nucleon-new-neutron-measurement-can-help-physicists-learn-about-nucleon-structure-and-spin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protons and neutrons\u2013known collectively as nucleons\u2013are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has received a bit more attention in certain types of nuclear physics experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. New results published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.211903\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a> describe a first-time glimpse of the internal structure of the neutron thanks to the development of a special, 10-years-in-the-making detector installed in Experimental Hall B at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe detected the neutron for the first time in this type of reaction, and it\u2019s quite an important result for the study of nucleons,\u201d said Silvia Niccolai, a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protons and neutrons\u2013known collectively as nucleons\u2013are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has received a bit more attention in certain types of nuclear physics experiments. Until now. New results published in Physical Review Letters describe a first-time glimpse of the internal structure of the neutron thanks to the development of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}