{"id":25092,"date":"2019-08-25T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitepourvtc.com\/?page_id=25092"},"modified":"2023-06-10T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T08:00:56","slug":"gamma-decay-gamma-radioactivity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sitepourvtc.com\/nuclear-power\/reactor-physics\/atomic-nuclear-physics\/radioactive-decay\/gamma-decay-gamma-radioactivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamma Decay – Gamma Radioactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gamma decay<\/strong> or \u03b3 decay<\/strong> represents the disintegration of a parent nucleus to a daughter through gamma rays<\/a> (high energy photons) emission. This transition (\u03b3 decay<\/strong>) can be characterized as:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n As can be seen, if a nucleus<\/a> emits a gamma-ray, atomic<\/a> and mass numbers<\/a> of the daughter nucleus remain the same, but the daughter nucleus will form a different energy state of the same element. Note that nuclides with equal proton number and mass number (thus making them by definition the same isotope) but in a different energy state are known as nuclear isomers. We usually indicate isomers<\/strong><\/a> with a superscript m, thus: 241m<\/sup>Am or 110m<\/sup>Ag.<\/p>\n