The energies of alpha and gamma rays
| Autor: | Harold Albert Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1934 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character. 144:280-285 |
| ISSN: | 2053-9150 0950-1207 |
| Popis: | It has been suggested that the writer should discuss the need for the atomic energy levels which he has recently proposed and their relation to previous work more fully. The summary way in which the theory was presented was partly due to the first papers on the subject having been returned, so that a later paper, intended to appear after the earlier papers, was rather unexpectedly published first. A brief preliminary account had been published in the ‘Physical Review,’ so when the earlier papers were rewritten much of the earlier work, showing how the theory arose, was omitted. According to Gamow’s theory, the gamma ray energies are equal to differences between the energy levels of an alpha particle in the nucleus, and these alpha particle levels are equal to the differences between the higher disintegration energies and the lowest or normal disintegration energy. Thus on Gamow’s theory the gamma and alpha energies depend only on the nucleus and are in no way related to the electronic energy levels. There are, however, several reasons for believing that the gamma and alpha energies, contrary to Gamow’s view, involve electronic energies. These reasons have been mentioned in previous papers, but it seems to be worth while to bring them together here. |
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