A. Psaltis

Nuclear <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> -ray cascades as Markov processes

A framework for computing $\gamma$-ray feeding probabilities in nuclear decay schemes based on absorbing Markov chains is presented. In this approach, excited nuclear states are treated as transient states and long-lived levels as absorbing states, allowing feeding fractions to be obtained exactly from the transition m...