Where is the neutron located?

Answer 1

The center of an atom, it is grouped together with the protons.

Answer 2

complex question ... "it depends on the individual neutron"

many neutrons are not contained in any nucleus ... "free" neutrons, what's to bind them to a nucleus anyway?

the preferential state of a free neutron seem like it would be just roaming around, only *extremely* rarely to interact with nucleii, which occupy an exquisitely small region in the potential target-path of an unbound neutron

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Resource Relation Atomic Energy (New York) ; VOL. 75 ; ISSUE: 2 ; PBD: Feb 1994; TN: Translated from Atomnaya Energiya; 75: No. 2, 83-87(Aug 1993)
Subject 22 NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY ; FUEL ELEMENTS; MULTIGROUP THEORY; RESEARCH REACTORS; NEUTRON LEAKAGE; REACTOR PHYSICS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; CRITICAL MASS
Description/Abstract To obtain intense neutron fluxes, a research reactor must have a compact active zone and a high specific heat intake. This requires a large heat-intake surface per unit volume of the active zone. For VVR-M5 fuel elements, this ratio takes a record value of 6.6 cm squared/cm cubed. The mean neutron path through a volume of metal or water is equal to or less than the neutron path length, so that the reactor may be regarded as homogeneous for almost any neutron energy, except perhaps resonant neutrons. Even in that case, the possibility of multiple neutron passage through a dense lattice homogenizes the resonant capture. Neutron leakage into the internal experimental devices of the reactor and the external reflector is usually large. Its contribution to the breeder factor is considerable and must be calculated with particular care. The optimal number of neutron energy groups must be determined here. The neutrons arriving at the active zone are fast, and those returning from the reflector are thermal, so there must be no fewer than two groups. In metal-water mixtures, the metal facilitates diffusion of the neutrons, and for research reactors, where the proportion of metal is 0.4-0.5, the use of two diffusional groups of decelerating neutrons is usually more expedient.

Answer 3

The neutron is in the nucleus of the atom with the protons and the electrons circling very fast around the outside in the electron cloud

Answer 4

a neutron is located in the nucleus of an atom, right next to the protons... the electrons orbit around the nucleus

Answer 5

the neutron is located in the nucleus.however the nucleus is found in the middle of the atom and contains positively charged proton and neutral charged neutrons.its has no charge

Answer 6

Assuming you mean in intact atoms, the neutron is one of the particles in the atomic nucleus.

In degenerate matter (such as a neutron star), the neutron is the primary particle making up the majority of the star's mass.

Answer 7

its located inside the nucleus. its nutral thus it has no charge. its shares the neutron area with protons which are positively charged and an electron which is located outside the nucleus and has an negetive charge!

Answer 8

a nucleus of an atom is made up of neutron which is a neutral particle and a proton which is a positive particle and electrons circle this.

Answer 9

Inside the nucleus and inside the valence electrons.

Answer 10

In the nucleus of an atom.