Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.
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I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.John Henry Carver
In Canberra my vision of what could happen in nuclear physics really depended on the big successes we might have had in the particle physics area.
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Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.
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Nobody with any sense would go into building the Van de Graaff, so that was left to honours people who were making sacrifices, really.
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In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
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