Recent content by Aakash Sunkari

Thank you! I figured Geant4 would be the best tool to use, but wanted an outside opinion.

Hello all. I'm an undergraduate student looking to conduct an experiment with an isotope that undergoes beta decay. I am curious as to the degree to which the isotope geometry will reduce the energy of/deflect beta particles emitted from the isotope. By geometry, I mean the "shape" of the...

Good day everyone, I've recently been researching direct energy conversion schemes for nuclear fission, and I have a question on the basic physics behind the device (specifically on how it converts kinetic energy to electricity). In essence, the "basic" scheme for fission DEC devices is that...

I wasn't thinking necessarily using the electrons for heat generation, but perhaps using the flow of the electrons as a "current" - since these electrons are already charged particles. So would this electric energy be equivalent to the kinetic energy these electrons possess?

I've got a quick question on the relationship between the kinetic energy of individual electrons and the total electrical energy they create. I have a radioisotope - a beta emitter - which produces electrons with around 1 MeV (1.60218×10-13 Joules / 4.45049×10-17 Watt-hours) of energy. I keep...

Hey everyone, I've got a question on converting bound protons into neutrons. a. What are some methods used to achieve the proton-to-neutron conversion in atomic nuclei? I'm familiar with particle scattering off a proton in the nucleus. I'm also aware of (n,p) reactions. Are there any other...

Hello all, I've got a question on nuclear decay "reversal" in beta emitters. I've been researching the Cowan-Reines experiment, which used neutrinos to convert protons into neutrons. Recently, I found out that the particle which hits the proton need not necessarily be a neutrino in order to...

Regarding the Quantum Anti-Zeno effect (AZE), we know that frequent measurements of a decaying system (such as a decaying radioactive nucleus) can induce greater decay rates. However, if I understand correctly, you can change the percentage of change in the decay rate. For example, if you have...

Sure. The paper written about it is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.5190

I recently read about a beta decay isotope (Rhenium-187),whose half life was changed from 42 X 109 years to 33 years, just by stripping the nucleus of all it's electrons. Why does this allow for a faster decay, and does this apply to all beta decay nuclei, or just Rhenium 187?

Hey everyone, I have a question about how "viable" the Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect (AZE) is at lowering decay rates in radioactive nuclei. We know that the AZE can, in fact, reduce the half life of radioactive isotopes, but there seems to be a barrier to that. AZE states that decay can be...

Thank you for your quick reply! I'll calculate it later today, and update this thread on my results.

Hey everyone, I've learned about double beta decay and neutrinoless double beta decay recently. So we have two "conditions" for decay, 2v decay and 0v decay. Now, to the question I have: There have been a lot of experiments measuring 2v decay rates, and there have been many experiments...