Confirming photo-nuclear reactions in lightning via detection of neutrons

News 2017/11/24

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Our group made of, Prof. T. Enoto from Kyoto University, and graduate students of Bamba-Nakazawa lab, Y. Wada, Y. Furuta, together with Lectuerer K. Nakazawa, Dr. T. Yuasa of ex-RIKEN, Dr. H. Tsuchiya of JAEA, Lecturer M. Sato of Hokkaido Univ. et al., has obsevationaly discovered the existence of photo-nuclear reacations in a lightning event. Our findings is published in Nature (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24630).

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