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An Iowa State University-led team of physicists has demonstrated the quasi-stable existence of a tetraneutron, a subatomic structure once thought unlikely to exist. Tetra-neutron system produced in double-charge exchange reaction 4He(8He,8Be). Image credit: Susumu Shimoura / University of Tokyo. On their own, neutrons are very unstable and will convert into …

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