They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium (²⁰⁵Tl⁸¹⁺) ions at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has ...
They exploited the fact that this quantity, the nuclear matrix element, also determines the bound-state beta decay rate of fully ionized 205 Tl 81+ to 205 Pb 81+. The experimental measurement of ...
Beta (\(\beta^-\)) decay is the release of an electron by the change of a neutron to a proton. The neutron (charge = 0) is made up of one up quark (charge = \(\frac{2}{3}\)) and two down quarks ...
The proton remains inside the nucleus, but the electron is ejected at high speed. This is called beta decay. Beta decay causes the atomic number of the nucleus to increase by one (because there is ...
The effects of the weak force were first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, in the place where it is most obviously at work: in radioactive beta decay. In the most common form of this ...
Nuclear fission is the most reliable source of antineutrinos, but they are difficult to characterise. A new study suggests how their emission can be ...