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In decay the kinetic energy of particle is and value of the reaction is . The mass number of the mother nucleus is (Assume that the daughter nucleus is in the ground state)
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Let is kinetic energy of particle and is the kinetic energy of the daughter nucleus.
Let be the mass number of mother nucleus then the mass number of the daughter nucleus is .
From the conservation of momentum
value
Let be the mass number of mother nucleus then the mass number of the daughter nucleus is .
From the conservation of momentum
value
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