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decay time

noun

Physics.
  1. the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.


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“And then the beauty about it is, you can control the attack, the rise, the sustain and the decay time. You actually create the note from the beginning.â€

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The winds must come from somewhere when they blow, There must be reasons why the leaves decay; Time will say nothing but I told you so.

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If the GUT approach is right, the average decay time in question is far longer than the age of the universe itself.

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The following modifications are made to the CMS analysis: the branching fraction is updated to a more recent prediction63, 64 of ; the phase space model of the decay is changed to a more appropriate semi-leptonic decay model63; and the decay time bias correction for the , previously absent from the analysis, is now calculated and applied with a different correction for each category of the multivariate discriminant.

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