Photodisintegration (also called phototransmutation, or a photonuclear reaction) is a nuclear process in which an atomic nucleus absorbs a high-energy...

the Chandrasekhar limit; electron capture; pair-instability; or photodisintegration. When a massive star develops an iron core larger than the Chandrasekhar...

burning pathway may be limited before the drip lines are reached by photodisintegration, where a high-energy gamma ray knocks a nucleon out of a nucleus...

alternatives, for example photodisintegration (called the γ-process today) or a combination of p-process and photodisintegration. Astronomy portal Physics...

interiors cause the competition between photodisintegration and the alpha process to favor photodisintegration around iron. This leads to more 28 56 N...

emitting a proton or an alpha particle. Silicon burning proceeds by photodisintegration rearrangement, which creates new elements by the alpha process, adding...

However, during nucleosynthesis in stars the competition between photodisintegration and alpha capturing causes more 56Ni to be produced than 62Ni (56Fe...

other elements studied, the cross section must be below 10−29 cm2. Photodisintegration (also called phototransmutation) is a similar but different physical...

eject a neutron by gamma radiation. One such nuclide is 9Be; its photodisintegration is significant in nuclear astrophysics, pertaining to the abundance...

neutron sources; the gamma rays emitted by antimony-124 initiate the photodisintegration of beryllium. The emitted neutrons have an average energy of 24 keV...

1.2×109 K or 100 keV and 4×109 kg/m3). At such high temperatures photodisintegration becomes a significant effect, so some neon nuclei decompose, absorbing...

the most abundant heavy element in the universe, the high rate of photodisintegration of nickel in stellar interiors causes iron to be by far the most...

Some theories about their formation include proton capture and photodisintegration. Tin-115 might be partially produced in the s-process both directly...

significantly greater presence of photodisintegration reactions. In the temperature range of (3–4)×109 K, photodisintegration and oxygen fusion occur with...

temperatures to rise to over 5×109 K (5 billion K). At these temperatures, photodisintegration (the breakdown of iron nuclei into alpha particles due to high-energy...

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possibly involved in double proton decay) Free neutron Neutron emission Photodisintegration Poenaru, Dorin N.; Rebel, Heinigerd; Wentz, Jürgen, eds. (2001)....

a nucleon or alpha particle from the nucleus in a process called photodisintegration. Compton scattering is the most important interaction in the intervening...

the energy of the incident photon exceeds the separation energy, a photodisintegration might occur. Energy in excess of the threshold value becomes kinetic...

relevant mechanisms are neutron activation, alpha absorption, and photodisintegration. A large enough number of transmutations can change macroscopic properties...

immediately collapse into a black hole at the end of their lives, due to photodisintegration. After a star has burned out its fuel supply, its remnants can take...

form of induced radioactivity results from removing a neutron by photodisintegration. In this reaction, a high energy photon (a gamma ray) strikes a nucleus...

photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, pair production, and photodisintegration). Next, these secondary charged particles transfer their energy to...

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r-process The s-process Proton capture: The rp-process The p-process Photodisintegration Hydrogen fusion (nuclear fusion of four protons to form a helium-4...

neutron s r proton p rp High-energy processes Spallation by cosmic ray Photodisintegration Nucleosynthesis and nuclear astrophysics Nuclear fusion Processes:...

have likely collapsed into black holes through a process known as photodisintegration. Here some matter may have escaped during this process in the form...

neutron s r proton p rp High-energy processes Spallation by cosmic ray Photodisintegration Nucleosynthesis and nuclear astrophysics Nuclear fusion Processes:...

20th-century physics with discoveries that include charmed mesons and photodisintegration of the deuteron. They were still active members of the SuperKamiokande...

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