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- From: logajan@sleepy.network.com (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Co60 gamma energy
- Message-ID: <9208130237.AA10611@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 02:37:50 GMT
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- Someone sent me e-mail suggesting Co60 gammas could be 5MeV. The CRC HCP says
- two gamma versions are likely, 1.1 and 1.33 MeV. I also checked the
- before and after atomic weights of 27Co60 and 28Ni60 and the difference
- amounts to about 2.82 MeV (which the CRC also says is the decay energy)
- but I had to subtract 0.511MeV for the electron mass.
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- That leaves about 2.3MeV to be divided up between the gamma, the nucleus and
- the neutrino.
-
- --John Logajan
-