On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:40 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: >If the ensemble is large, > >even a reaction with 20+ MeV can be quickly and quietly dissipated in the > >production of x-rays. If this happened, the daughter alpha itself might > >have little to no kinetic energy. > [snip] > I see no reason why this should be the case when it is clearly not the > case for > normal decay reactions. >
The idea was that if the momentum is imparted to the ensemble of electrons, since the electrons are so light, their share of the energy of the reaction would be the overwhelming majority, with little energy left over for the kinetic energy of the alpha particle. Eric
