Electron capture (K-electron capture, also K-capture, or L-electron capture, L-capture) is a process in which the proton-rich nucleus of an electrically...

An electron capture detector (ECD) is a device for detecting atoms and molecules in a gas through the attachment of electrons via electron capture ionization...

of electron capture ionization. The electron affinity is positive when energy is released on electron capture. In solid state physics, the electron affinity...

same. In electron capture, an inner atomic electron is captured by a proton in the nucleus, transforming it into a neutron, and an electron neutrino is...

Electron-capture dissociation (ECD) is a method of fragmenting gas-phase ions for structure elucidation of peptides and proteins in tandem mass spectrometry...

electron capture is a decay mode of an atomic nucleus. For a nuclide (A, Z) with a number of nucleons A and atomic number Z, double electron capture is...

Electron capture ionization is the ionization of a gas phase atom or molecule by attachment of an electron to create an ion of the form A−{\displaystyle...

molecule M. Adding an electron through an ion-ion reaction is called electron-transfer dissociation (ETD). Similar to electron-capture dissociation, ETD induces...

type called an electron capture supernova. ... In an electron capture supernova, as the core runs out of fuel, gravity forces electrons in the core into...

produces antineutrinos). In electron capture, some proton-rich nuclides were found to capture their own atomic electrons instead of emitting positrons...

by electron capture. For low-energy decays, electron capture is energetically favored by 2mec2 = 1.022 MeV, since the final state has an electron removed...

with a nucleus containing 26 protons and 29 neutrons. It decays by electron capture to manganese-55 and this process has a half-life of 2.737 years. The...

interacts electromagnetically with one of the orbital electrons of an atom. This causes the electron to be emitted (ejected) from the atom. Thus, in internal...

iodine, after iodine-129. Its half-life is 59.49 days and it decays by electron capture to an excited state of tellurium-125. This state is not the metastable...

nuclear orbital in the same way that the pair of electrons in the helium atom occupy a filled 1s electron orbital). Consequently, alpha particles appear...

accompanied by the emission of an electron and an antineutrino, while proton to neutron transition (except in electron capture) causes the emission of a positron...

using an electron capture detector coupled to a gas chromatograph. Negative ions are formed by resonance capture of a near-thermal energy electron, dissociative...

(MS/MS). Similar to electron-capture dissociation, ETD induces fragmentation of large, multiply-charged cations by transferring electrons to them. ETD is...

stellar core collapses, the pressure causes electrons and protons to fuse by electron capture. Without electrons, which keep nuclei apart, the neutrons collapse...

quantified as the detector output. In the electron capture mode, the PDD is a selective detector for monitoring high electron affinity compounds such as freons...

by the electron beam ion trap. Electron capture ionization (ECI) is the ionization of a gas phase atom or molecule by attachment of an electron to create...

high neutron flux to allow short-lived 45Ca to capture a neutron. 48Ca is produced by electron capture in the r-process in type Ia supernovae, where high...

orbital electrons (double electron capture). If the mass difference between the parent and daughter atoms is more than 1.022 MeV/c2 (two electron masses)...

making up 68.077% of the natural abundance. Possible sources include electron capture from copper-58 and EC + p from zinc-59. Nickel-59 is a long-lived cosmogenic...

both beta minus decay and electron capture. Gallium-67 is unique among the light isotopes in having only electron capture as a decay mode, as its decay...

Negative electron affinities can be used in those cases where electron capture requires energy, i.e. when capture can occur only if the impinging electron has...

an electron) with a maximum energy of 1.31 MeV and an antineutrino. In about 10.72% of events, it decays to argon-40 (40Ar) by electron capture (EC)...

stars, or in radioactive isotopes capable of electron capture, neutrons are created by electron capture: p + e− → n + ν e. This is similar to the inverse...

the energy of red light, that energy is not captured by devices with a single p-n junction. The electron is ejected with higher energy when struck by...

another body Asteroid capture, when an asteroid is gravitationally captured Electron capture, a nuclear reaction Stream capture, a geomorphological phenomenon...