The KDK Collaboration Identifies Rare Nuclear Decay in Long-Lived Potassium Isotope (IMAGE)

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The KDK Collaboration Identifies Rare Nuclear Decay in Long-Lived Potassium Isotope

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The Potassium Decay (KDK) Collaboration used the KDK array to detect a previously unmeasured process in the radioactive decay of potassium-40 to argon-40 involving a rare type of electron capture.

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