slow neutron

slow neutron
—slow-neutron, adj.
a neutron with low kinetic energy, esp. one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
[1930-35]

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      neutron whose kinetic energy is below about 1 electron volt (eV), which is equal to 1.60217646 10−19 joules (joule). Slow neutrons frequently undergo elastic scattering interactions with atomic nuclei and may in the process transfer a fraction of their energy to the interacting nucleus. Because the kinetic energy of a neutron is so low, however, the resulting recoil nucleus does not have enough energy to be classified as an ionizing particle. Instead, the important interactions for the detection of slow neutrons involve nuclear reactions (nuclear reaction) in which a neutron is absorbed by the nucleus and charged particles are formed. All the reactions of interest in slow neutron detectors are exoenergetic, meaning that an amount of energy (called the Q-value) is released in the reaction. The charged particles are produced with a large amount of kinetic energy supplied by the nuclear reaction. Therefore, the products of these reactions are ionizing particles, and they interact in much the same way as direct radiations consisting of heavy charged particles.

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