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 ...

Here is the equation for the alpha decay of radon-219 into polonium. Beta decay involves the conversion of a down quark to an up quark. This changes a neutron into a proton plus an electron.

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 ...

Antineutrinos, with electrons, are emitted from unstable atomic nuclei during the process of beta decay in which a neutron transforms into a proton. The strongest reliable and controllable source ...