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The 63 pages that link to Beta decay, each with the reason it gives.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• PromethiumRelated: Beta decay links promethium to neighboring elements in fission-product decay chains.

• Down quarkRelated: In beta-minus decay, a neutron’s down quark changes into an up quark.

• FermiumRelated: Beta decay can raise a nucleus’s atomic number during the production of heavy elements.

• Tritiated waterRelated: Tritium in water decays by emitting a low-energy electron.

• Carbon isotopesRelated: Carbon-14 decays by converting a neutron into a proton.

• ProtactiniumRelated: Beta decay changes protactinium into neighboring elements without changing its mass number.

• Caesium-137Related: Caesium-137 decays by emitting an electron, becoming metastable barium-137.