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• Radioactive decayBroader topic: It changes the element while leaving the nucleon count unchanged.

• IsotopeBroader topic: This decay changes an isotope’s atomic number while preserving its mass number.

• NeutronRelated: In beta-minus decay, a neutron becomes a proton while emitting an electron and an antineutrino.

• Alpha decayCompared with: Unlike alpha decay, it changes proton number by one without ejecting a four-nucleon cluster.

• Weak interactionBroader topic: It is a familiar consequence of weak conversion between neutron and proton constituents.

• NeutrinoRelated: The energy spectrum of beta decay motivated the neutrino hypothesis.

• Atomic nucleusBroader topic: It changes the proton-to-neutron balance while often preserving nucleon number.

• Neutron captureCompared with: After capture, beta decay can change the element while preserving the mass number.

• RadioactivityBroader topic: It changes a nucleus’s proton-to-neutron balance without ejecting a heavy fragment.

• Wolfgang PauliRelated: The continuous electron-energy spectrum prompted Pauli’s neutrino hypothesis.

• Nuclear transmutationBroader topic: Changing a neutron into a proton raises the nucleus’s atomic number by one.

• W and Z bosonsRelated: A virtual W boson mediates the underlying conversion of a neutron into a proton, electron, and antineutrino.

• Supernova nucleosynthesisRelated: After neutron captures, beta decays move unstable nuclei toward stable elements.

• NuclideBroader topic: It changes a nucleus's proton-to-neutron balance and often its element.

• Carbon-14Related: Carbon-14 decays by emitting an electron as one neutron becomes a proton.

• Decay chainRelated: It changes the element while usually preserving the mass number.

• Neutrinoless double beta decayNarrower topic: The hypothesized mode combines two beta transitions while omitting their neutrinos.

• TritiumNarrower topic: Tritium decays by emitting an electron as one neutron becomes a proton.

• Gauge bosonRelated: In beta-minus decay, a W boson mediates the quark-level transformation.

• Parity violationRelated: Its angular correlations supplied the first decisive evidence for parity violation.

• R-processRelated: After captures pause, beta decay raises atomic numbers along the r-process path.

• Spontaneous fissionCompared with: It changes nuclear composition without splitting the nucleus into fission fragments.

• IsobarRelated: It can convert a nuclide into a different isobar.

• Potassium-40Related: Potassium-40 produces calcium-40 through beta-minus decay.

• Charge conservationRelated: The emitted charged lepton balances the change in the nucleus’s charge.

• Gamma decayCompared with: Beta decay changes nuclear composition; gamma decay typically only removes excitation energy.

• Lepton numberRelated: Accounting for the emitted neutrino in beta decay helped motivate particle-number conservation rules.

• Edwin McMillanRelated: Beta decay raised the atomic number in the uranium-to-neptunium sequence.

• Particle decayBroader topic: Its underlying weak interaction changes quark flavor and produces leptons.

• S-processRelated: Between captures, beta decay raises a nucleus’s proton number and moves it toward a stable isotope.

• Thorium fuel cycleRelated: Two successive beta decays transform thorium-233 into uranium-233.

• Chien-Shiung WuNarrower topic: The cobalt-60 nuclei in Wu’s test decayed by emitting beta particles.

• Muon decayCompared with: Both processes involve weak decay, but muon decay has no hadronic nucleus in its final state.

• Cobalt-60Related: Cobalt-60 first transforms into excited nickel-60 by emitting a beta particle.

• Frederick SoddyBroader topic: Beta emission accounted for the one-place shifts central to the displacement law.

• Thorium-232Related: Two beta decays follow neutron capture as thorium-232 becomes uranium-233.

• AstatineRelated: Beta transitions in heavy-element decay chains can form astatine isotopes.

• Electron neutrinoRelated: Beta-minus decay emits an electron antineutrino; inverse beta processes detect electron neutrinos.

• Electroweak theoryRelated: It is a familiar weak process described by electroweak theory.

• GeoneutrinoNarrower topic: Beta-minus decays in uranium and thorium chains emit the antineutrinos measured as geoneutrinos.

• Isotopes of hydrogenBroader topic: Tritium decays by turning a neutron into a proton and emitting an electron and antineutrino.

• Radiogenic heatBroader topic: Beta particles and accompanying radiation transfer decay energy into planetary material.

• RadionuclideBroader topic: This process changes a radionuclide’s atomic number while often leaving its mass number unchanged.

• Rubidium-87Narrower topic: Rubidium-87 decays by beta-minus emission, becoming strontium-87.

• Strontium-90Related: Strontium-90 decays by emitting an electron and becoming yttrium-90.

• Tsung-Dao LeeRelated: The Wu experiment tested parity by measuring electrons emitted in beta decay.

• Wu experimentBroader topic: Wu’s team measured the electron distribution produced by cobalt-60 beta decay.

• FranciumRelated: A competing decay route of francium-223 produces radium-223.

• NeptuniumRelated: Beta decay connects uranium-239 to neptunium-239 and neptunium-239 to plutonium-239.

• Up quarkRelated: In beta-minus decay, a down quark converts into an up quark.