Equation 26 · Part 1 · The Valley of Stability Is a Fitness Landscape
Symbol β
What this part means
the sometimes purely.
Its job in the formula
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
A decay chain is a sequence of such steps, sometimes purely beta, more often threaded with alpha emissions that jump A downward by four and Z downward by two in a single move.
The passage around this formula
where , , and collect the volume, surface, Coulomb, and asymmetry contributions and the pairing term shifts the curve up or down depending on whether N and Z are both even or both odd. For odd A , exactly one of N , Z is even and the pairing term vanishes, giving a single parabola…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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