How to Use beta decay in a Sentence

beta decay

noun
  • This work represents the most sensitive search to date for sterile neutrinos using tritium beta decay.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
  • It is also built with the potential for future upgrades, such as a leading search for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • More than a quarter of a century before, physicists had been puzzling over why energy appeared to be lost during a radioactive process called beta decay.
    — Simon Frantz, Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • On the one hand, there would be double-neutrino double-beta decay, where the parent nucleus would emit two electrons and two neutrinos, transforming two of the neutrons in the nucleus into protons in the process.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The research explores whether an inverse beta decay, or IBD, neutrino detector could capture usable data from a nuclear detonation or a pulsed fission reactor.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Betavoltaic devices convert energy released during beta decay into electrical current.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2026
  • However, if neutrinos and antineutrinos aren’t Dirac fermions but are actually Majorana particles, then an atomic nucleus that was unstable against double beta decay could actually exhibit two different types of double beta decay.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There are direct tritium beta decay experiments (like KATRIN) that are ongoing, seeking to measure the individual neutrino mass eigenstates (ν1, ν2, and ν3) directly.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There are neutrinoless double beta decay experiments (like GERDA and MAJORANA) underway, which have set upper limits on the rate at which that process can occur, while measuring double neutrino double beta decay events to the greatest precisions ever.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025

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