Equation 3 · Part 1 · Nucleosynthesis Is Descent With Modification
Symbol tau_β^-
What this part means
that nucleus’s beta-decay half-life.
Its job in the formula
tau_β^- is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
where is the mean waiting time between successive neutron captures on a given nucleus and is that nucleus’s beta-decay half-life.
The passage around this formula
where is the mean waiting time between successive neutron captures on a given nucleus and is that nucleus’s beta-decay half-life. Because the s-process obeys this inequality, its reaction path never strays far from the valley of nuclear stability: a nucleus captures a neutron, and if the product is unstable it decays back toward stability long before it can capture another neutron and be pushed further away [ 7 ] .
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