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To establish the possible radioactivity of the neutron, K. C. Wang has suggested a spectroscopic test for hydrogen in a mass of liquid heavy hydrogen or preferably in liquid helium after irradiation by slow neutrons. Some evidence for the beta-activity of the neutron is found in the experiments on the scattering of neutrons in deuterium, carried out by J. F. Streib and myself2. The details of the method and a photographic record of the recoil pulses have been given3.
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SUNDARACHAR, C. The Beta-Activity of the Neutron. Nature 157, 268 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157268b0
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