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Thank you for the clarifications, much appreciated
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Not right. They were created already in the prompt beta decay. They take exactly the energy they can while leaving the nucleus in...
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The electron and antineutrino take energy to create, presumably taking away from the energy available for photon emission and...
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The Q-value you have computed is for decay directly to the mercury ground state I assume? Are you perhaps forgetting something in this...
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Hopefully you have a typo' and mean ##0.412MeV##. The wording (IMO) implies that it's OK for you to assume that (at least some of) the...
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If it decayed directly to the ground state, then there would be no gamma emission.
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What about them? They are still produced in the initial decay.
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The Q value being higher than the excitation energy means you have enough energy to actually excite that state. Whatever is not used to...
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So it's decay to the excited state is what allows for the emission of gamma rays (once relaxation occurs), at least that's what I...
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I did whoops thanks for catching that
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Can we just treat these as plain old photon emission transitions? i.e. ##E_{\gamma_1}=1.008 \, MeV - 0.412 \, MeV, \, E_{\gamma_2}=1.008...
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correct, directly to the ground state. I'm assuming I'm forgetting the gamma ray emission?
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This is what I have for my solution thus far: "For gold to transition to mercury, it must exchange one of it's neutrons for a proton...
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