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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Kenton J. Moody, Patrick M. Grant, Ian D. Hutcheon
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
524 pages
20h 21m
English
CRC Press
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40 Nuclear Forensic Analysis
decay process, is small compared to the energy released in the nuclear transforma-
tion. Thus, the error associated with ignoring this effect is small.
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f a positron. For example, consider the decay of
143
Eu by EC:
143
Eu =
143
Sm + Q
EC
.
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143
Eu nuclide, with 63 protons, 80 neutrons, and 63 electrons and a mass excess
o
f
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Sm nuclide containing
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