Talk:Delayed nuclear radiation

Confusing

What I think this article is saying is that Ga-73 decays to an excited state of Ge-73 by beta-decay; this excited state then converts to Ge-73m2 by the successive emission of two gamma-ray photons; the collapse to the ground state then hangs up; and finally proceeds via two more gamma-ray photon emissions, and the internal conversion of an orbital electron (not necessarily in that order).

But the usage I've seen for delayed radiation is the prompt (microsecond scale or faster) emission of gamma, alpha, neutron or proton after a beta-decay, which is different, and which is also what is pointed at in the animations. (I haven't worked out why there aren't alpha-delayed decay modes, but I can't find any mention of such, so I presume there is a reason for the non-existence.)

I also suspect that Ga-73 can decay to more than one excited state of Ge-73, and each of these can collapse to the ground state by alternate paths. Lavateraguy (talk) 22:35, 12 August 2017 (UTC)