In nuclear beta decay an up quark ‘u’ in a proton converts into an up down quark ‘d,’ turning the proton into a neutron and emitting a positron and a neutrino. This work affects interpretation of beta ...
How long did it take our Sun to form in its stellar nursery? Scientists are now closer to an answer. They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium ions at ...
Beta-detected nuclear magnetic resonance (β-NMR) spectroscopy constitutes a powerful technique that utilises the β-decay of polarised radioactive nuclei to probe the local magnetic environment in ...