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Barn (unit)
A
barn
is a unit of
area
, equal to
10
-28
m
2
[?]
. Although not an official
SI unit
, it is widely used by
nuclear physicists
as it is considered to be "as big as a barn" compared to the typical
cross sections
for
nuclear reactions[?]
.
External links
IUPAC
citation for this usage of "barn"
(
http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/B00598.pdf
)
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/painless/htmls/cross.html
wikipedia.org
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