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 detection during the reaction.
I have never seen a good denial of the idea that virtual high spin particles do not happen and provide for the distribution of small quanta of spin and angular momentum quanta and energy) to the electronic structure they happen to be in. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Walker To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> 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 the lines of a.. d + d + e → [dd]* + e → 4He + e + Q (~ 23 MeV for the electron) will not conserve angular momentum. Is this true? I think you're alluding to something similar here. Can you elaborate on the problem that you're wanting to solve with spin coupling so that I can better understand the underlying difficulty that is being overcome? Eric
