latex package for NE?

[rachel slaybaugh]

Hi,

Does anyone know a tex package for nuclear? In particular, one that does decay chains well? JR (copied) is a new grad student at UTK who asked--and it occurred to me that this would be useful for many of us to know, so I'm asking my computational hive mind :)

Thanks!

Rachel

[Katy Huff]

I've had good luck with mchem for typesetting nuclide names, but I've never had to typeset decay chains..

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[Thad Heltemes]

I haven't had to typeset full decay chains either. I used this in my dissertation (xelatex+withesis.cls):

\newcommand{\leftexp}[2]{{\vphantom{#2}}^{#1}{#2}}

\newcommand{\isotope}[2]{\leftexp{\text{#2}}{\text{#1}}}

and used it in this context:

\begin{equation}

\begin{split}

\isotope{H}{2} + \isotope{H}{2} & \xrightarrow{50\%} \isotope{H}{3} (1.01~\textrm{MeV}) + \isotope{H}{1} (3.02~\textrm{MeV}) \\

             & \xrightarrow{50\%} \isotope{He}{3} (0.82~\textrm{MeV}) + \textrm{n} (2.45~\textrm{MeV})

\end{split}

\end{equation}

This could be modified to include Z and N numbers. Anything fancier than this would probably require TikZ or inkscape.

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