Spectrum of secondary electrons emitted during the nuclear β--decay of the tritium atom
A. M. Frolov
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, N6H 5B7 Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Ionization of the final 3He+ ion during the nuclear
β--decay of the tritium atom is discussed.
The velocity spectrum of the emitted
secondary electrons is derived in the explicit form. Our method allows to
determine the relative and absolute probabilities of formation of the final
states in few-electron atoms which include "free" secondary electrons moving
with different velocities.