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The isotope having a mass 12.014 u undergoes -decay to . has an excited state of the nucleus (*) at 4.041 MeV above its ground state. If decays to *, the maximum kinetic energy of the -particle in units of MeV is (1u = 931.5 MeV/c2, where c is the speed of light in vacuum).
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