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PRONUNCIATION OF BRANCHING FRACTION

branching fraction  [ˈbrɑːntʃɪŋ ˈfrækʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BRANCHING FRACTION

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Branching fraction is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BRANCHING FRACTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Branching fraction

In particle physics and nuclear physics, the branching fraction for a decay is the fraction of particles which decay by an individual decay mode with respect to the total number of particles which decay. It is equal to the ratio of the partial decay constant to the overall decay constant. Sometimes a partial half-life is given, but this term is misleading; due to competing modes it is not true that half of the particles will decay through a particular decay mode after its partial half-life. The partial half-life is merely an alternate way to specify the partial decay constant λ, the two being related through: For example, for spontaneous decays of 132Cs, 98.1% are ε or β+ decays, and 1.9% are β− decays. The partial decay constants can be calculated from the branching fraction and the half-life of 132Cs, they are: 0.10 d−1 and.0020 d−1. The partial half-lives are 6.60 d and 341 d. Here the problem with the term partial half-life is evident: after days almost all the nuclei will have decayed, not only half as one may initially think.

Definition of branching fraction in the English dictionary

The definition of branching fraction in the dictionary is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BRANCHING FRACTION


abstraction
æbˈstrækʃən
action
ˈækʃən
attraction
əˈtrækʃən
contraction
kənˈtrækʃən
counterattraction
ˈkaʊntərəˌtrækʃən
detraction
dɪˈtrækʃən
diffraction
dɪˈfrækʃən
distraction
dɪˈstrækʃən
extraction
ɪkˈstrækʃən
fraction
ˈfrækʃən
infraction
ɪnˈfrækʃən
overextraction
ˌəʊvərɪkˈstrækʃən
protraction
prəˈtrækʃən
reaction
rɪˈækʃən
refraction
rɪˈfrækʃən
retraction
rɪˈtrækʃən
semiabstraction
ˌsemɪæbˈstrækʃən
substraction
səbˈstrækʃən
subtraction
səbˈtrækʃən
traction
ˈtrækʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BRANCHING FRACTION

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branchial
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branching
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branchiopod
branchiostegal
branchless
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branchlike
branchy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BRANCHING FRACTION

accreditation
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collection
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construction
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course of action
detection
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election
fiction
function
inspection
instruction
interaction
introduction
production
protection
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selection
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of branching fraction in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «branching fraction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BRANCHING FRACTION

Find out the translation of branching fraction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of branching fraction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «branching fraction» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

分支比
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fracción de ramificación
570 millions of speakers

English

branching fraction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शाखाओं में बंटी अंश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جزء المتفرعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ветвления доля
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fração de ramificação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শাখা ভাগফল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fraction de branchement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pecahan cawangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verzweigungsverhältnis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

分岐率
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분기 분수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bagian pecahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhánh phần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शाखांचे अपूर्णांक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dallanma fraksiyonu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frazione di ramificazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

frakcja rozgałęzienia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розгалуження частка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fracțiune de ramificare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διακλάδωση κλάσμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertakking fraksie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förgrening fraktion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forgrening brøkdel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of branching fraction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BRANCHING FRACTION»

The term «branching fraction» is normally little used and occupies the 134.313 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about branching fraction

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRANCHING FRACTION»

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Measurement of Branching Fraction and Polarization in the ...
This document presents results fron an analysis of B 0 → rho+rho-- decays using (383.6+/- 4.2) x 106 BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-meson Factory at SLAC.
Yuriy V. Groysman, 2008
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Branching Fraction Measurements and SU(3) Diagrammatic ...
Using 281 pb-1 of data collected using the CLEO-c detector, we present new measurements of Cabibbo-suppressed decays of D mesons.
Shabana Nisar, 2007
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Measurement of B Meson Decaying to Eta'-Xs Partial Branching ...
The eta' is a meson in the flavor SU(3) pseudo-scalar nonet and has an anomalously large mass that is not explained by Gell-Mann Okubo Mass Formula, and which differs from other pseudo-scalar particles in the same multiplet.
Kirika Uchida, 2007
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First Observation of the Decay Antineutral B(s) Meson Going ...
We present the first observation of the decay B0s→D+/- sK∓ and measure the relative branching fraction of B0s→D+/- sK∓ to B0s→D+s p- .
Johannes Muelmenstaedt, 2007
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Measurement of the Branching Fraction and CP Asymmetries in ...
In the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the charged-current couplings of the quark sector are described by the Cabibho-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements Vqq' .
Mark T. Allen, 2007
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Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Heavy ...
CLEO has presented a preliminary measurement of the B-meson semileptonic branching fraction based on fitting the inclusive lepton spectrum from 952 pb_1 of CLEO-II T(4S) data. This measurement applies to a larger data set the technique  ...
D. I. Britton, D. B. MacFarlane, Popat M. Patel, 1994
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Radiative B Meson Decay as a Probe of Physics Beyond the ...
Based on 90fb−1 of data at the Υ(4S) resonance, they measured the charged- mode branching fraction B(B+ → K+φγ) = (3.4 ± 0.9 ± 0.4) × 10−6 and set a limit on that of the neutral-mode of B(B0 → K0φγ) < 8.3 × 10−6 at 90% confidence level.
Joseph Marion Tuggle (IV.), 2009
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Research in Chemical Kinetics
with mass spectrometric detection of reaction products to determine the product branching fraction at room temperature. NH X32 was formed by reaction of NH3 with excess F.125'126 It was then reacted with excess 15ng0, and the product ...
Elsevier Science, 2012
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Measurement of the Charmed B(+/-) Meson Lifetime Using ...
In all models, the decay to B0∗s + ρ± is found to have the largest branching fraction, but this is not a useful channel from an experimental perspective since ρ decays typically include a π0 which is difficult to reconstruct experimentally.
Mark P. Hartz, 2008
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Measurement of the Top Quark Mass Simultaneously in Dilepton ...
The value of the branching fraction of a b quark to a muon or electron is: as measured in Reference [55]. The branching fraction of b quarks to r leptons is [2]: giving the total branching fraction of b quarks to leptons of 0.2390±0.007.
Wojciech T. Fedorko, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRANCHING FRACTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term branching fraction is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lepton-Flavor-Violating Higgs Decays Fit In With LHCb Anomalies
In their preprint they not only point out how the large branching fraction of a Higgs boson into muon-tau pairs can be accounted for by a ... «Science 2.0, Jan 15»
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New CMS Results
From the absence of a signal in the data an upper limit on the branching fraction is obtained at 0.0016 - meaning that less than one in 600 ... «Science 2.0, Oct 14»
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The Graph Of The Week: No Dark Photons Found By ATLAS Lepton …
The first is an exclusion of the branching fraction of Higgs boson into dark photons as a function of the dark photon lifetime. The second is an ... «Science 2.0, Sep 14»
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Does The Higgs Violate Lepton Flavour Number? A CMS Result …
Of course the Standard Model (which predicts the branching fraction to be exactly zero) is by no means ruled out - the effect is at the 2.5 sigma ... «Science 2.0, Jul 14»
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Prospects For Measuring Higgs Boson Pair Production
... in the final state, thus exploiting the large branching fraction of H->bb decays to counter-balance the very small pair production cross section. «Science 2.0, May 14»
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The Plot Of The Week - No Higgs In Top Decays
Such processes must have a very small probability of actually taking place: in the standard model the prediction is a branching fraction in the ... «Science 2.0, Mar 14»
7
Atlas Sees No Light From Quantum Black Holes
... the upper limit at 95% confidence level is drawn on the product of cross section times branching fraction to photon-jet pairs times acceptance. «Science 2.0, Feb 14»
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SpeedExtractor - Model E-914/E-916 - Pressurized Solvent ...
Contamination / Branching fraction Textiles: dyes / Residues: perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), phthalates, chlorinated paraffins, formaldehyde / Contaminants: ... «Environmental Expert, Jan 14»
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Invisible Higgs Not Seen !
Using that, an upper limit can be set on the branching fraction, assuming that the production occurs at the SM predicted rate. The result is that ... «Science 2.0, Sep 13»
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The Plot Of The Week - Search For New Vector-Like Heavy Quarks
These searches all assumed, for simplicity, a 100% branching fraction of the b' to bZ final states; of course if the branching fraction of the decay ... «Science 2.0, Aug 13»

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