The essential decay of pandemonium: A demonstration of errors in complex beta-decay schemes Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 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.

published proceedings

  • Physics Letters B

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Hardy, J. C., Carraz, L. C., Jonson, B., & Hansen, P. G.

citation count

  • 281

complete list of authors

  • Hardy, JC||Carraz, LC||Jonson, B||Hansen, PG

publication date

  • November 1977