Maybe someone can explain this comment in the paper: "In the carbon breakup reaction, a metastable 13C shatters into three α particles and the residuals of the reaction can be viewed in the CR-39 detector as a three-prong star where each prong represents each charged particle that occurs in the decay (Antolković and Dolenec 1975)."
Is this saying that the reaction happens only with the 13C isotope, typically 1% of the content? Terry On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> All in all, I am still of the opinion that the triple tracks are not >> indicative of a three-alpha reaction (12C fission), and that alternatives >> should be looked at. > > But what about the geometry of the cones in figure 2 of my reference: > > http://www.springerlink.com/content/022501181p3h764l/ > > What else could have that signature inside the polycarbonate? > > Terry >
