Consider the electron capture reaction of an electron by argon, where both argon atom and electron are assumed to be at rest, which yields a chlorine atom and a neutrino:
The atomic masses (which include the bound electrons) are: Ar = 36.966776 u, Cl = 36.965903 u, the electron mass is 5.485799E?4 u and you can take mvec2 = 0 eV. The atomic mass unit u = 931.5 MeV/c2. What are the final kinetic energies of the neutrino (?e) and the chlorine atom in eV?
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