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The decay of the neutron is associated with a quark
transformation in which a down quark is converted to an up
by the weak interaction . The average lifetime of 10.3 min/0.693
= 14.9 minutes is surprisingly long for a particle decay that
yields 1.29 MeV of energy. You could say that this decay is
steeply "downhill" in energy and would be expected to
proceed rapidly. It is possible for a proton to be transformed
into a neutron, but you have to supply 1.29 MeV of energy to
reach the threshold for that transformation. In the very early
stages of the big bang when the thermal energy was much
greater than 1.29 MeV, we surmise that the transformation
Electrons 100meters
Nucleus
Electric Force
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P.A.Ganai - NIT SRINAGAR01/14/09
P.A.Ganai - NIT SRINAGAR01/14/09
Nuclear
Density
ØNuclear binding energy = Δmc2
ØFor the alpha particle Δm= 0.0304 u which gives a
binding energy of 28.3 MeV.