{"id":171301,"date":"2023-09-04T22:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-make-the-first-observation-of-a-nucleus-decaying-into-four-particles-after-beta-decay"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:23:40","slug":"scientists-make-the-first-observation-of-a-nucleus-decaying-into-four-particles-after-beta-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-make-the-first-observation-of-a-nucleus-decaying-into-four-particles-after-beta-decay","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make the first observation of a nucleus decaying into four particles after beta decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-make-the-first-observation-of-a-nucleus-decaying-into-four-particles-after-beta-decay2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all of the material around us is stable. Some materials may undergo radioactive decay to form more stable isotopes. Scientists have now observed a new decay mode for the first time. In this decay, a lighter form of oxygen, oxygen-13 (with eight protons and five neutrons), decays by breaking into three helium nuclei (an atom without the surrounding electrons), a proton, and a positron (the antimatter version of an electron).<\/p>\n<p>Scientists observed this decay by watching a single nucleus break apart and measuring the breakup products. The study is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have previously observed interesting modes of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radioactive+decay\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radioactive decay<\/a> following the process called beta-plus decay. This is where a proton turns into a neutron and emits some of the produced energy by emitting a positron and an antineutrino. After this initial beta-decay, the resulting nucleus can have enough energy to boil off extra particles and make itself more stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all of the material around us is stable. Some materials may undergo radioactive decay to form more stable isotopes. Scientists have now observed a new decay mode for the first time. In this decay, a lighter form of oxygen, oxygen-13 (with eight protons and five neutrons), decays by breaking into three helium nuclei (an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}