Precise measurements of the annihilation of an electron–positron pair into a neutron–antineutron pair allow us to take a look inside the neutron to better understand its complex structure.
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Pakhlova, G. News on the neutron structure. Nat. Phys. 17, 1196–1197 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01349-2
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