* Beta decay

Beta radiation from radioactive decay can be stopped with a few centimeters of plastic or a few millimeters of metal.

Beta decay commonly occurs among the neutron-rich fission byproducts produced in nuclear reactors.

Beta plus decay can only happen inside nuclei when the absolute value of the binding energy of the daughter nucleus is higher than that of the mother nucleus.

Beta plus ( or positron ) decay of a radioactive tracer isotope is the source of the positrons used in positron emission tomography ( PET scan ).

# REDIRECT Beta decay

# REDIRECT Beta decay

Beta decay is the release of a beta particle, a high-energy electron.

* Beta decay is an example of an interaction due to the exchange of a W boson, but not an example of a force.

Beta decay occurs when the nucleus emits an electron or positron and a type of neutrino, in a process that changes a proton to a neutron or the other way around.

# REDIRECT Beta decay

In particle physics, Fermi's interaction ( also the Fermi Theory of Beta Decay ) is an explanation of the beta decay, proposed by Enrico Fermi in 1933.

# REDIRECT Beta decay

Beta decay, as always in this process, also produces an antineutrino, which carries off variable amounts of the beta decay energy.

* Beta decay

* Beta decay

# REDIRECT Beta decay

Beta decay of fission products of mass 95-98 stops at the stable isotopes of molybdenum of those masses and does not reach technetium.