The essential decay of pandemonium: A demonstration of errors in complex beta-decay schemes
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The -decay of a fictional nuclide, Pandemonium, is created numerically using a statistical model. By analyzing its simulated -ray spectrum as experimental data, we find that much -ray intensity actually remains unobserved under normal experimental conditions. This results - illustrated for the case of 145Gd - casts doubt on many decay schemes determined from such spectra. 1977.