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Homework Statement
A tritium atom is in the ground state and undergoes beta emission, creating a positively charged Helium ion. Assuming the nuclear change is instantaneous and there are no recoil effects, calculate the probability that the Helium ion will be found in its ground state...
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The Attempt at a Solution
I've already shown that the form of the ground state energy eigenfunction is:
[tex]\psi (r) = \sqrt{\frac{Z^{3}}{\pi a_{0}^{3}}} e^{-\frac{Zr}{a_{0}}}[/tex]
where Z is the nuclear charge and [tex]a_{0}[/tex] is the Bohr radius.
I know that the ground state energy for a hydrogenic atom is [tex]E_{1}= 13.6[/tex] eV.
However, despite looking through my notes and a few books, I can't seem to set up the required probability calculation.
Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.
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