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Branching ratios (Nuclear physics)

LC control no.sh 85016396
Topical headingBranching ratios (Nuclear physics)
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Variant(s)Ratios, Branching (Nuclear physics)
See alsoDecay schemes (Radioactivity)
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Found inMcGraw-Hill dict. of sci. and tech. terms, c1989 (Branching ratio: the ratio of the number of parent atoms or particles decaying by one mode to the number decaying by another mode; the ratio of two specified branching fractions)
Academic Press dict. of sci. and tech., via WWW, Apr. 12, 2001 (Branching ratio: the relative intensities of competing disintegration modes determined by the number of atoms on average that follow one mode of decay versus the number of atoms that follow another)