Sentences with phrase «called spallation»

Prior to this study, researchers attempting to explain the abundance of Beryllium - 10 decay products in meteorites had theorized that a process called spallation — wherein high - energy particles strip away protons or neutrons from a heavy nucleus — by cosmic rays was the culprit.

That knocks out neutrons in a process called spallation.

Not exact matches

The research team — including Anibal Ramirez - Cuesta, Luke Daemen, and Yongqiang Cheng of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as Timothy Jenkins and Craig Brown of the National Institute of Standards and Technology — used spectroscopic tools, including the state - of - the - art inelastic neutron spectrometer called VISION at the Spallation Neutron Source, to examine the atomic - level dynamics of a special kind of molecular structure called a clathrate.