In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:12:36 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] > >I do not think all of the energy can be carried away by means of a neutrino >emission since the remaining nucleus must rebound to preserve momentum. This >of course would also require energy to be impressed upon that nucleus in the >form of 1/2*m*V*V. Not much, but at least a tiny bit of energy. Robin, are >you confident that a gamma is not released at the same time as the neutrino?
No, not at all. However D apparently has no excited states (see http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/getbandplot.jsp?unc=nds), so a gamma, released by an excited nucleus after the fact, is out of the question. However I guess that doesn't preclude an instantaneous gamma. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
