The isotope 52 B having a mass 12-014 u undergoes -decay to 612 C -62 C has an excited state of the nucleus 52 C - at 4-041 MeV above its ground state- If 12-5 B decays to 612 C - the maximum kinetic energy of the -particle in units of MeV is 1 u -931-5 MeV - c 2- where c is the speed of light in vacuum-

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Standard XII

Physics

Conservation of Momentum

The isotope 5...

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The isotope $_{5}^{12} B$ having a mass 12.014 u undergoes $β$ -decay to $_{6}^{12} C$ , $_{6}^{12} C$ has an excited state of the nucleus ( $_{5}^{12} C^{}$ ) at $4.041 M e V$ above its ground state. If $_{5}^{12} B$ decays to $_{6}^{12} C^{}$ , the maximum kinetic energy of the $β$ -particle in units of $M e V$ is
( $1 u = 931.5 M e V / c^{2}$ , where c is the speed of light in vacuum).

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$_{5}^{12} B \to_{6}^{12} C + β^{-} + ¯ ν$
For any radioactive particle decay, the energy released in the reaction will be given by $Q = (m_{B} - m_{C}) c^{2}$
Now $m_{C} = 12 u$ and $m_{B} = 12.041 u$
Out of $Q$ , 4.041 eV energy is used to excite $_{6}^{12} C$ to its excited state $_{6}^{12} C^{*}$ , then K.E. available to $β$ particle and antineutrino is $= (m_{B} - m_{C}) c^{2} - Δ m c^{2} = 0.014 \times 931.5 - 4.041 = 9 M e V$
The $β$ particle will have maximum K.E when antineutrino will have minimum K.E i.e 0.
Therefore maximum K.E of the $β$ particle is $9 M e V$

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