In reply to Eric Walker's message of Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:37:01 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Some reactions that produce alphas will also normally be accompanied by the >emission of a gamma (but not all reactions). In the case of otherwise >gamma-emitting reactions, it's possible that the reaction energy is instead >transmitted to the ensemble of electrons, each electron dividing the total >share into smaller pieces and emitting a photon. If the ensemble is large, >even a reaction with 20+ MeV can be quickly and quietly dissipated in the >production of x-rays. If this happened, the daughter alpha itself might >have little to no kinetic energy. [snip] I see no reason why this should be the case when it is clearly not the case for normal decay reactions.
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