Sentences with phrase «slow the neutrons emitted»

And the Americans chose to slow the neutrons emitted from their enriched uranium with more readily available graphite, rather than heavy water.

Not exact matches

So for the Chicago experiment, the physicists used graphite to slow down the emitted neutrons, via multiple scattering processes.

Boynton and his team used the Odyssey instrument to zero in on energetic gamma rays, which are emitted by hydrogen when it is stimulated by subatomic collisions, and on sluggish neutrons that had been slowed down by their interaction with hydrogen.

Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discover a pair of neutron stars whose orbits are slowing exactly as if they were losing energy by emitting gravitational waves

These less energetic, slow neutrons are reflected back toward the detector; nonradioactive helium - 3 in low - pressure pipes collects them and emits electrons.

The pulsar's rotation is thought to slow because the neutron star's powerful magnetic field acts as a giant dynamo, emitting light, radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation as the star rotates.