Timeline for $\beta^+$ decay
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| Apr 8, 2013 at 13:52 | comment | added | Dmist | Cheers that makes sense | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 12:23 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | You can't really say that the proton does or does not have an excess of energy at all. The parent nucleus has more energy (mass) that the daughter nucleus plus the positron plus the neutrino (and including their kinetic energy). | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 8:40 | comment | added | Dmist | But when the proton does decay, it does have an excess of energy? | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 3:27 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | It is not true that nuclei that decay by $\beta^+$ re necessarily excited. It is enough that they can get to a lower state by doing so. | |
| Apr 7, 2013 at 22:05 | history | answered | Dmist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |