Sentences with phrase «by beta decay»

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.

Not exact matches

And a small amount decays by (antimatter) beta emission (positron emission).

Most K - 40 decays by (ordinary) beta emission to Ca - 40.

If the neutrino is its own antiparticle, a neutrino - free version of this decay might also occur: In a rarity atop a rarity, the antineutrino emitted in one of the two simultaneous beta decays might be reabsorbed by the other, resulting in no escaping antineutrinos.

Mass measured by neutrinoless double beta decay experiments is an effective mass, a kind of weighted average of the three neutrino masses.

In certain isotopes of particular elements — species of atoms characterized by a given number of protons and neutrons — two beta decays can occur simultaneously, emitting two electrons and two antineutrinos.

The KamLAND - Zen experiment succeeded in dramatically improving the neutrinoless decay search limit by combing an ultra-low background detector with an unprecedented amount of xenon - 136, the isotope where the double - beta decay occurs.

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.

«Standard» double - beta decay is accompanied by the release of two neutrinos.

Six years after the discovery of radioactivity (1896) by Henri Becquerel of France, the New Zealand - born British physicist Ernest Rutherford found that three different kinds of radiation are emitted in the decay of radioactive substances; these he called alpha, beta, and gamma rays in sequence of their ability to penetrate matter.