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What is meant by "forbiddenness of the decay path?"
- To: "'RadSafe'" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: What is meant by "forbiddenness of the decay path?"
- From: "Jacobus, John (OD)" <JJacobus@exchange.nih.gov>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:28:46 -0500
- Return-Receipt-To: "Jacobus, John (OD)" <JJacobus@exchange.nih.gov>
I am reviewing a manual that discusses beta decay, which indicates that some
paths are forbidden? Can anyone tell me that refers to? Are there
probabilistic values associated with this?
-- John
"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice-there are two
other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
-Frank Zap
John Jacobus, MS
Health Physicist
National Institutes of Health
Radiation Safety Branch, Building 21
21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780
Bethesda, MD 20892-6780
Phone: 301-496-5774 Fax: 301-496-3544
jjacobus@exchange.nih.gov (W)
jenday@ix.netcom.com (H)
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