All sciences. №7, 2023. International Scientific Journal - страница 3

But today, in addition to the above, at least in a theoretical way, the concept of neutron energy is becoming developing, based on a rather simple phenomenon, as it may seem – the decay of a neutron. The neutron itself is a massive particle that is part of all atomic nuclei in a certain amount. When this particle is in a free state, it is capable of decaying in one of two decay lines (1—2), every 80 seconds.

At the same time, it should be said that the first decay line is 98.2% more likely than the second, the probability of which is determined depending on the rest of the part. The kinetic energy of each of the decay reaction products can be determined by using (3), where the inversely proportional energy distribution relative to each of the masses is indicated.

Following the decay, it can be traced from the manifested regularity that a greater amount of all the energy obtained from the nuclear reaction passes to lighter particles. However, this process, as can be seen, is a particular consideration of a certain case, which acquires a larger scale when viewed from the top.

As you know, the atomic nucleus consists of protons and neutrons, but now neutrons are of great interest, if we proceed from this reaction method, which got their name from the Latin neuter – neither one nor the other. This is, in fact, a heavy elementary particle that does not have an electric charge, or more precisely equal to (-0.2 ± 0.8) * 10^>—27 elementary electric charge, have a relatively large mass of 939.57 MeV or 1.00866 atomic mass units, and also, in addition to other indicators, has a lifetime of 880 ± 0.9 seconds, that is, a half-life of 610 ±0.6 seconds in the free state. In addition, it decays along 2 channels (as indicated above), that is, it divides into a proton, electron and electron antineutrino in 99.7% of cases, or additionally emits a gamma quantum in 0.309% of cases, respectively, for all cases of decay.

Now let's pay attention to the fission products and their charge – a proton and an electron, they attract, that is, they do not have a repulsive Coulomb barrier, here, on the contrary, it connects particles and for a proton with electrons, the energy generated will be 1,028676 MeV. That is, it turns out that a neutron was taken, it decayed into an electron, a proton and an electron antineutrino, which, once in annihilation, immediately turns into a gamma quantum, and then the electron and proton gain 1,028676 MeV, despite the fact that they need only 0.782 MeV to produce a neutron, that is, the neutron itself will already have energy in 246.676 keV. After that, this neutron will split, but then the energy will be distributed inversely proportional to the masses of the reaction products.