comparative lifetime
comparative lifetime
[kəm′par·əd·iv ′līf‚tīm] (nuclear physics)
The product of the mean life of a nucleus that undergoes beta decay and the probability per unit time that beta decay would occur if the matrix element between the initial and final states of this transition were unity.
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