Contents -- Preface -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Low Energy Neutron Beams -- 1.1 Production of Slow Neutrons -- 1.2 Neutron Guides -- Bibliography -- 2 Particle Properties of the Neutron: A Summary -- 2.1 Mass of the Neutron -- 2.2 Studies of Neutron Properties with Cold Neutrons -- 2.3 Studies of Neutron Properties with Ultra Cold Neutrons -- Bibliography -- 3 High Resolution Spectroscopy at the Institut Laue Langevin -- 3.1 The Neutron Capture Reaction -- 3.2 Gamma Ray Emission Following Neutron Capture -- 3.3 Primary Gamma Rays -- 3.3.1 The PN4 Facility at the ILL -- 3.4 Secondary Gamma Rays Following Thermal Neutron Capture -- 3.4.1 The Crystal Spectrometers GAMS at the ILL -- 3.4.2 The Curved Crystal Spectrometers GAMS1 and GAMS2/3 -- 3.5 Internal Conversion Electrons -- 3.5.1 The Conversion Electron Spectrometer BILL at the ILL -- 3.6 Construction of Level Schemes -- 3.7 The Flat Crystal Spectrometers GAMS4 and GAMS5 -- 3.7.1 Lifetime Measurements Using the GRID Technique -- 3.7.2 Study of Atomic Motion in Single-Crystal Metals -- 3.7.3 Neutrino Induced Recoil -- 3.7.4 Precision Measurements of High Energy Gamma Rays -- 3.8 Nuclear Physics Studies -- 3.8.1 Studies of Light Mass Nuclei -- 3.8.2 Empirical Manifestation of New Symmetries in Nuclei -- 3.8.3 Vibrational Modes in Rare Earth Nuclei -- 3.8.4 Odd Mass Actinide Nuclei -- 3.8.5 High Resolution Measurements in 176Lu -- 3.8.6 Spectroscopy of Fission Products -- Bibliography -- 4 Fission Research at the Institut Laue-Langevin -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Instruments and Methods -- 4.3 Mass Distribution of Fragments from Thermal Neutron Induced Fission -- 4.4 Kinetic Energies of Fission Fragments -- 4.5 Mass Energy Correlations -- 4.6 Charge Distributions -- 4.6.1 General Properties -- 4.6.2 Charge Even-Odd Effect -- 4.6.3 Charge Even-Odd Effects in Superasymmetric Fission.

4.6.4 Charge Even-Odd Effects in Symmetric Fission -- 4.6.5 Charge Even-Odd Effects in Super-Deformed Fission -- 4.6.6 Kinetic Energy Even-Odd Effects -- 4.6.7 Neutron Even-Odd Effects -- 4.7 Cold Fission -- 4.7.1 Discovery and Experimental Techniques -- 4.7.2 True Cold Fission -- 4.7.3 True Cold Fission: What Can be Learned? -- 4.8 Ternary and Quarternary Fission -- 4.8.1 Ternary Fission Yields -- 4.8.2 Energy Distribution and Correlations in Ternary Fission -- 4.8.3 Quarternary Fission -- 4.9 Fission Induced by Polarized Neutrons -- 4.9.1 Parity Violation in Binary and Ternary Fission -- 4.9.2 Tri- and Rot-Effect in Ternary Fission -- 4.9.3 Models for the Tri- and Rot-Effect -- 4.10 Thermal Neutron Induced Fission Cross Sections -- Final remark -- Bibliography.