Through the weak nuclear force, one quark flavor can transmute into another. However, current data and theory indicate that ...

In recent years, some large physics experiments worldwide have been trying to gather evidence of a nuclear process known as ...

Note that the mass numbers and atomic numbers are equal (i.e. they balance) on both sides of the equation. An unstable nucleus can emit a fast-moving electron called a beta (β) particle ...

When a radioactive atom emits an alpha particle the mass number decreases by four and the atomic number drops by two. Here is the equation for the alpha decay of radon-219 into polonium.

has a mass of about 2 tons of sensitive volume and is made of approximately two million cubes. Each cube is made of plastic scintillator (PS) material that emits light when a charged particle ...