Scientists have performed a new, more sensitive measurement of beta decay properties to hunt for a theorized feature of the weak nuclear force not currently included in the Standard Model.

They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionized thallium (²⁰⁵Tl⁸¹⁺) ions at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has ...

Radford currently leads the DOE-funded portion of the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, known as the LEGEND-1000 DOE project, or LEGEND, with ORNL as its lead lab ...

The effects of the weak force were first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, in the place where it is most obviously at work: in radioactive beta decay. In the most common form of this ...

Here is the equation for the alpha decay of radon-219 into polonium. Beta decay involves the conversion of a down quark to an up quark. This changes a neutron into a proton plus an electron.

Beta (\(\beta^-\)) decay is the release of an electron by the change of a neutron to a proton. The neutron (charge = 0) is made up of one up quark (charge = \(\frac{2}{3}\)) and two down quarks ...

When encased in a diamond, carbon-14 undergoes a process we call beta decay. This is essentially where the carbon-14 releases a series of electrons. These electrons are then absorbed by the ...

Radford currently leads a portion of the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, known as the LEGEND-1000 DOE project (LEGEND), with ORNL as its lead lab.