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    In nuclear physics, double beta decay is a type of radioactive decay in which two neutrons are simultaneously transformed into two protons, or vice versa...
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    In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron)...
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    Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a commonly proposed and experimentally pursued theoretical radioactive decay process that would prove a Majorana...
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    nuclides are also stable with regards to double beta decay or theoretically higher simultaneous beta decay, as they have the lowest energy of all isobars...
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    Positron emission, beta plus decay, or β+ decay is a subtype of radioactive decay called beta decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is...
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    particles, then lepton-number violating processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay would be allowed, while they would not if neutrinos are Dirac particles...
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    Double electron capture is a type of double beta decay, a permissible decay mode of an atomic nucleus. For a nuclide (A, Z) with a number of nucleons...
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    is 2.01×1019 years. The isotopes in beta-decay stable isobars that are also stable with regards to double beta decay with mass number A = 5, A = 8, 143 ≤ A ≤ 155...
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    requiring the detector be placed underground. As part of the Kamland-Zen double beta decay search, a balloon of scintillator with 320 kg of dissolved xenon was...
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    because decay proceeding one step at a time would have to pass through an odd–odd nuclide of higher energy. Such nuclei thus instead undergo double beta decay...
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  • seesaw mechanism and are being searched for in the neutrino-less double beta decay process. The name majoron was suggested by Graciela Gelmini as a derivative...
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  • gamma decay, but must proceed by another route, such as beta decay in some cases, or internal conversion where beta decay is not favored. Beta decay is classified...
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    − L. Neutrinoless double beta decay has not (yet) been observed, but if it does exist, it can be viewed as two ordinary beta decay events whose resultant...
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    when 48Ca does decay, it does so by double beta decay to 48Ti instead, being the lightest nuclide known to undergo double beta decay. 46Ca can also theoretically...
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    neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te, a process that has never been observed. It uses tellurium dioxide (TeO2) crystals as both the source of the decay and...
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  • searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of xenon-136 at WIPP near Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S. Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) detection would prove...
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    was given a job as an assistant and published a landmark paper on double beta decay in 1935. In 1937, she moved to Columbia University, where she took...
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  • 74Ge, and 76Ge. Of these, 76Ge is very slightly radioactive, decaying by double beta decay with a half-life of 1.78 × 1021 years (130 billion times the...
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  • long-lived isotopes. Double electron capture has been observed in 124Xe (half-life 1.1 ± 0.2stat ± 0.1sys×1022 years) and double beta decay in 136Xe (half-life...
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    unstable to double beta decay, and the nuclides with 84 neutrons which are theoretically stable to both beta decay and double beta decay are 144Nd and...
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  • to beta decay or double beta decay), but many such nuclides which are theoretically unstable to double beta decay have not been observed to decay, e.g...
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    uranium-233, which is formed in the decay chain of neptunium-237. Additionally, uranium-232 would be produced by the double beta decay of natural thorium-232, though...
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  • 113Cd (beta decay, half-life 8.04×1015 years) and 116Cd (double beta decay, half-life 2.69×1019 years). The other three are 106Cd, 108Cd (double electron...
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    neutrinoless modes of decay are used to explain the weak interaction and nuclear structure aspects of nuclear double beta decay. New neutron-rich isotopes...
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  • in particle physics MAJORANA, a physics search for neutrinoless double-beta decay Majorana 1, a hardware device developed by Microsoft for use in quantum...
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  • seen in nuclear physics such as in the beta decay transition, neutrinoless double beta decay and double beta decay. Consider an unperturbed initial system...
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    him. He was also the first to propose the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Wendell Furry was born in Prairieton, Indiana on February 18, 1907...
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    its beta decay is extremely hindered, and so the only radioactive decay pathway that it has been observed to undergo is the extremely rare double beta decay...
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    inefficient double beta minus decay process. Double beta decay in general is so rare that several nuclides exist which are predicted to decay by this mechanism...
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    tellurium-128 (128Te) with a half-life estimated at 7.7×1024 years by double β-decay (double beta decay). The half-life of 209Bi was confirmed in 2012 by an Italian...
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