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Thats fairly interesting, Ill have to look into that. Maybe ot can also provide additional insight

Thanks for the help. I believe I have the correct alpha (kinetic) energy now pegged at around 10 MeV, taking it as a single-step, nonrelativistic scenario. Thank you all for your help!

Thank you all very much, your insight is invaluable, and I believe I can use this to move forward. One final question, however (and sorry if I'm asking too many of them), but I can assume that most of the energy released is split between the two alpha articles, right (given the small mass of the...

I do see what you're saying. Beryllium-8 is so unstable it essentially doesn't exist as an intermediate step. Would you therefore be able to treat the Li-7(n, 2a) reaction as a single step in terms of physics (e. g., in calculating the outgoing energies of the alpha particles)? I assume then...

Thank you very much! I will look into this more when i get home

Thanks!

Thanks, glad to be here!

Im a younger student who has a profound appreciation for particle, theoretical, and nuclear physics.

Hello All, Firstly, I'd like to apologize if any of this comes across as wrong or off-putting, as I am a completely new user. However, this question has been troubling me for months. I'm trying to work out an experiment involving the reaction where Li-7 absorbs an incoming neutron, transforms...