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Radioactive Decay

Radioactive Decay is a spontaneous nuclear transformation process in which an unstable atomic nucleus emits particles and/or electromagnetic radiation and transmutes into a different, typically more stable, nuclide according to probabilistic decay laws.

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Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology

Rudolf H. Steiger, E. Jäger · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1977 · 10K citations

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Discussion Reporting of <sup>14</sup>C Data

Minze Stuiver, Henry Polach · Radiocarbon · 1977 · 5.7K citations · Full text

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μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays?

Peter Minkowski · Physics Letters B · 1977 · 4.7K citations

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The EvtGen particle decay simulation package

David Lange · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 2001 · 3.5K citations

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ENDF/B-VII.1 Nuclear Data for Science and Technology: Cross Sections, Covariances, Fission Product Yields and Decay Data

M. B. Chadwick, M. Herman, P. Obložinský et al. · Nuclear Data Sheets · 2011 · 2.8K citations

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    V.I. Tretyak

    Institute for Nuclear Research, Ukraine

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    J. Suhonen

    University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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    G. Pessina

    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Italy

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    Balraj Singh

    McMaster University, Canada

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    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    Berkeley, United States

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  3. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

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  4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge, United States

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  5. University of California, Berkeley

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  6. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

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