The discovery of the Ω- particle helped confirm Gell-Mann’s eightfold way. If an Ω- decays into a Λ0 and a K-, what is the total kinetic energy of the decay products?

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Q: Uranium-238 decays into lead-206. The Q value for the entire chain is 51.7 MeV and the decay…

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Q: Neptunium-237 decays through alpha decay and forms protactinium. Estimate the kinetic energy of the…

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Q: A particle of ionizing radiation creates 4000 ion pairs in thegas inside a Geiger tube as it passes…

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Q: What is the daughter product of the a decay of Rn -198?

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Q: 198Au has a decay constant of 2.97 x 10-6 s-1. Activity of 1 g of the sample will be 9.03×1015 Bq.…

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Q: Protactinium has a half life of 3.28 x 104 years. Estimate the decay constant.

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Q: Why is energy of α-particles discrete in α -decay?

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Q: Glow-in-the-dark signs take advantage of β− particles emitted in the decay of certain isotopes that…

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Q: Calculate the binding energy per nucleon for 6Li

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Q: Large amounts of 65Zn are produced in copper exposed to accelerator beams. A physicist was machining…

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Q: Measurements taken at two neutrino detection facilities, the Irvine–Michigan–Brookhaven detector (as…

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Q: Why do some nuclides (like 3I) decay? (b) What type nuclide will always decay?

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Q: The ratio of the abundance of 235U to 238U on Earth is 0.7%. If we assume that these two isotopes…

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Q: Strontium-89 is a radioactive isotope of strontium, with symbol 38Sr. It decays via beta-minus decay…

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Q: An energy of 30.0 eV is required to ionize a molecule of the gas inside a Geiger tube, thereby…

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Q: Problem 9. Explain why the fact that the electron emitted in the decay of a neutron has a range of…

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