{"id":344,"date":"2011-06-09T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-06-18T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:28:13","slug":"internal-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/internal-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal conversion is likely due to a missed spin flip signal from the nucleus, when one or more currents internal to the nucleus are disrupted at an inappropriate time.\u00a0 One of the places a description is found is in Krane section 10.6.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the same book, and while it refers to the complete spin-orbit interaction, and not just spin flips, a useful quote here is \u201cthe nucleus produces a current loop, which gives rise to a magnetic field at the location of the electron; this magnetic field interacts with the spin magnetic moment \u00b5<sub>s<\/sub> of the electron \u2026\u201d *.\u00a0 When it comes to internal conversion then, synchronous timing of a spin flip signal is critical to holding an electron in a quantum orbital, and loss of the signal due to nucleus disruption can allow the electron to take off on a short or long trip to an atmospheric atom, to another planet, to the Andromeda Galaxy, or to be captured in a Van Allen Belt just for a few possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The higher the principle quantum number, the higher the kinetic energy an electron will have in this process as it takes off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Krane, Kenneth, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Introductory Nuclear Physics<\/span>, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1988, Chapter 16, pg 611<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal conversion is likely due to a missed spin flip signal from the nucleus, when one or more currents internal to the nucleus are disrupted at an inappropriate time.\u00a0 One of the places a description is found is in Krane section 10.6. Looking to the same book, and while it refers to the complete spin-orbit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophysics","category-nuclear-physics","category-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}