Fermi decay

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Fermi decay

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Beta decay
…former process is known as Fermi decay (F) and the latter Gamow–Teller (GT) decay, after George Gamow and Edward Teller, the physicists who first proposed it. The interaction constants are determined to be in the ratio g_GT²/g_F² = 1.4. Thus, g² in equation (7) should be replaced by (g_F² +…
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…former process is known as Fermi decay (F) and the latter Gamow–Teller (GT) decay, after George Gamow and Edward Teller, the physicists who first proposed it. The interaction constants are determined to be in the ratio g_GT²/g_F² = 1.4. Thus, g² in equation (7) should be replaced by (g_F² +…
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