DerekShannon wrote:
It actually is possible in a small fraction of pB11 reactions for the energy to be released as a gamma ray instead of in the break-up into alpha particles, and when that happens you are indeed left with a carbon-12. A friend in astrophysics at Caltech suggested it might be interesting to look for the gamma ray signature as part of our diagnostics.
does the probability of a gamma change with the velocity of the collision? if so, it becomes a way to measure reaction temperature.
