Sentences with phrase «as beta decay»

This explains why it took researchers nearly 30 years to catch a first glimpse of neutrinos, although their existence had been first postulated in 1930 to explain an apparent violation of the conservation of energy in the radioactive decay of unstable atomic nuclei known as beta decay.

Not exact matches

Four experiments have recently published results showing no hint of the process, known as neutrinoless double beta decay (SN: 7/6/02, p. 10).

Luckily, antineutrinos are slightly easier to detect, through a process known as inverse beta decay.

The work provides the first measurement of the energy spectrum of photons, or particles of light, that are released in the otherwise extensively measured process known as neutron beta decay.

It was the Austrian - born physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli who theorized that beta decay must emit an as yet undiscovered neutral particle.

But Daya Bay's nuclear reactors produce billions of trillions of electron antineutrinos every second, emitted by neutrons during a process called «beta decay,» and scientists have finally been able to measure their metamorphosis as they pass through a series of detectors positioned outside the reactors.

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Fluoride was preferred to chloride as chlorine - 35 absorbs a neutron to become chlorine - 36, then degrades by beta decay to sulfur - 36 and this causes all sorts of corrosion problems.