UWinnipeg team breaks Canadian record for ultracold neutron production

Dr. Jeff Martin and his team broke a Canadian particle physics record this summer – producing 900,000 ultracold neutrons with each proton pulse.

Neutrons are extremely small, subatomic particles. Once separated from a nucleus, they are almost impossible to contain—moving at extreme speeds and capable of penetrating through a large distance of material.

To study a neutron is no easy task. Studying a faint electrical signal found within a neutron might seem unimaginable.

But that’s exactly what Dr. Jeff Martin, UWinnipeg physics professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, is doing. And, he and his team are breaking particle physics records to do it.

“One way to measure really fine properties of something like a neutron is to just make lots and lots and lots of neutrons,” explained Dr. Martin.

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