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"Hannes Nagel" <hannes.nagel@reddd.homelinux.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.11.22.09.34.33.75773@reddd.homelinux.net...
why can one radionuclide emit several different gamma energies during the
same decay (for example 214-Bi to 214-Po has several characteristic gamma
peaks)?
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Hannes Nagel
The parent nucleus decays via particle emission (or
capture) to one or another of several excited states
of the daughter nucleus. The daughter then decays
to a lower excited state or to the ground state by
gamma emission. Gamma emission alters nuclear
angular momentum and parity, J(pi), but not nucleon
number or proton number, (A, Z).
[Old Man]
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