Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: With the interaction of particles with linear momentum something has to be produced that conserves this momentum and yet is an allowed energy state in the new system. Hi Bob, I have heard elsewhere that a reaction along

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:48:59 -0800: Hi Eric, It must be one of the thousands that I deleted unread, however I wouldn't expect that sort of thing to affect gamma radiation. OTOH it certainly will affect *measured* alpha radiation. The travel distance of an alpha

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: It must be one of the thousands that I deleted unread, however I wouldn't expect that sort of thing to affect gamma radiation. Maybe. But consider for a moment the decay of a [dd]* compound nucleus, which normally follows one of the

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Bob Cook
Eric etal-- I have always thought that the so called branching ratios were associated with potential states of the system that conserve linear momentum and angular momentum of the earlier system that is subject to decay. With the interaction of particles with linear momentum something has to

[Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, Sometime back there was a Vortex thread where we were looking at the question of whether electron charge density might be play a role in gamma decays. A point in question was whether gamma branches in the decays of solid radioisotopes might be affected by electron charge density. A

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- I do not profess to understand how the spin is distributed. I doubt that the reaction involving a 24 MEV electron reflects reality. The angular momentum associated with neutrinos is a possibility. Potentially the energy and angular momentum is associated with neutrinos that escape