ELFT HÍRADÓ

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ELTE Fizikai Intézet

                                ORTVAY KOLLOKVIUM

                    2018. április 5., csütörtök, 15:00-kor
                Az ELTE Pázmány Péter s. 1/A alatti épületében
                           földszinti 0.81 előadóban



                                    Mezei Ferenc
                    (European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden)

        Neutron research from De Gennes to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Kivonatos ismertetés:

Although more than half of planet Earth’s mass is accounted for by the mass 
of neutrons bound in atomic nuclei, the study of beams of free neutrons or 
their use as a powerful tool in a variety of research fields is a by-product 
of the Manhattan project in the 1940s. Since then the public research funding 
spent on such research in current value amounts to roughly about 20,000 billion
Hungarian Forints, which is one-and-a-half-century-worth of the total R&D 
spending on the current level in all the Hungarian institutional research and 
higher educational establishments, combined.

The talk will be aimed at illustrating - by a few highlights - the 
significance,
importance and impact of this vast and highly multifaceted domain of research,
in some cases in connection with some aspects related to Hungary. These 
highlights will, amongst other, touch upon the correction and completion of
magnetostatic theory on the microscopic scale, the spin “labeling” method and 
its applications in beam experiments, soft matter dynamics on nanoscale, safety
issues in transport, and functional errors in critical computer systems. 
Examples will include results in fundamental and applied research and new 
trends of applications in archeology, industry and healthcare.