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>An electron beam with energy of 600 eV, which corresponds to a de Broglie wavelength of 50 pm, was generated with a thermionic tungsten filament and several electrostatic lenses. The beam was collimated with a slit of 2 μm width and 10 μm height placed at 16.5 cm. The double-slit was located 30.5 cm from the collimation slit.

I’m really not sure man, and yes I would think it would travel straight but it seems like all the shots are scattered.
I would like to see if they can shoot a straight electron, which they try to do, but I’m not sure if they really did.

It seems like a beam would produce diffraction (like light in the napkin pic), and that all they did was pulse the beam at such a slow rate that it produced the expected diffraction at a slow rate through scattered plot points, but I’m still uncertain if we can prove that it was every truly a single particle (in a probabilistic position inside this beam) being fired from that beam.

Is this basically like firing single atoms with electron shells at target, in that the atom would hit the target accurately but the electron would hit based on where it’s probabilistic position in the shell was at the time of impact?