Alpha-Decay Energies of Polonium Isotopes
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- 15 July 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 83 (2), 390-393
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.83.390
Abstract
The isotopes and have been shown to have half-lives of 11 and 18 minutes, respectively, and to emit alpha-particles of 5.84 and 5.70 Mev. Both isotopes decay mainly by electron capture. The energies of the alpha-particles of the polonium isotopes 206 to 209 have been redetermined as 5.21, 5.10, 5.10, and 4.86 Mev, respectively. The abundance of the low energy alpha-group of , which was used as a standard in this work, was observed as 4.8 percent of the total alpha-activity.
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