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Measurements of the neutron cross sections of hydrogen and deuterium in H2O-D2O mixtures using the deep inelastic neutron-scattering technique

We investigated the neutron cross sections of hydrogen and deuterium by means of the deep inelastic neutron-scattering technique in H2O-D2O mixtures. The interest in this work was to examine the anomalous behavior in the hydrogen neutron cross section reported in the past in similar experiments that raised a yet unsettled controversy. The measurements were made at the Bariloche pulsed neutron source (Argentina) in pure H2O and D2O, with mixtures of molar concentrations of deuterium of xD=0.3 and 0.4, at room temperature, under the same experimental conditions as the former experiments. The results are in good agreement with the standard cross sections and are incompatible with the anomalies pointed out.

Entanglement of protons in organic molecules: an attosecond neutron scattering study of C [bond] H bond breaking

Interactions between adjacent particles of condensed phases can lead to quantum correlation phenomena, like quantum interference, entanglement, delocalization, and "Schrödinger's cat" states. Such correlations are theoretically expected to be extremely short-lived because of environmental disturbances. Here, we present experimental evidence for quantum entanglement between well localized protons of C [bond] H bonds of 2-isobutoxyethanol dissolved in D(2)O. The applied experimental method is neutron Compton scattering (NCS), which has a characteristic time window in the subfemtosecond time range. Our NCS results reveal that, in the subfemtosecond time scale, the measured cross-section density, and thus, in simple terms, the effectively present concentration, of the H atoms is "anomalously" reduced by approximately 20%. Affecting the microdynamics of protons of covalent C [bond] H bonds, this novel effect may have a broad range of chemical and biological applications.