In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed, 14 May 2014 18:18:23 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] >Much depends upon how the reaction energy is stored within the nucleus. Does >anyone recall seeing good evidence that it is stored as spin energy of the >nucleons? Large nuclei such as nickel likely have much of the energy hidden >within the distribution of the protons and neutrons that can take on different >forms. Helium or deuteron are too simple to have these sinks as far as I >know. I am not aware of the possible distributions and magnitudes of spin >energy storage but that dovetails nicely with our thoughts about interaction >with large magnetic fields. > >Dave Different combinations of spin states show up as excited states of the nucleus. Usually these relax to the ground state in short order with emission of a gamma ray.
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