In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:40:29 -0800: Hi, [snip] >This seems promising. I'm having trouble seeing the difference between >neutron tunneling and neutron capture. [snip] Neutron capture assumes the presence of free neutrons, which one would also expect to turn up in detectors. In neutron tunneling there are no free neutrons. They simply "jump" from one stable nucleus to another nucleus. Because this process can only occur where there is a net energy gain, it is unlikely that they will form a radioactive nucleus. (Radioactive nuclei are unstable, because they are high energy nuclei.)
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