In reply to Eric Walker's message of Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:25:50 -0500: Hi Eric,
I realize what you meant, but during normal decay reactions, the energy is not shared with an ensemble of electrons, so why would this case be special? >On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >>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. >> > >The idea was that if the momentum is imparted to the ensemble of electrons, >since the electrons are so light, their share of the energy of the reaction >would be the overwhelming majority, with little energy left over for the >kinetic energy of the alpha particle. > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
