What is photodisintegration?

Photodisintegration is a physical process that occurs when gamma rays with massive energies hit the atomic core and divide it. Of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, gamma rays are the most loyal and also have the shortest wavelength, atomic core or less. It is the same mechanism that causes chain reactions in nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs. For elements lighter than iron reaction it consumes energy and releases it for elements. The elements lighter than iron require more energy to break up than to release from this breakage. The energy generated by photodisintegrating comes from a strong nuclear force that holds the particles in the atomic core together.

The process of photodisintegration is the main factor in supernova, which includes stars with 250 or larger sunshine, such as the initial population of III stars that have been eating the universe. In the collapse of a supermassive star, the temperature in the center is so large that gamma rays capable of photodisint are formedEgrace. Because the vast majority of elements in the core of such a star is lighter than iron, the reaction absorbs energy, reduces the pressure in the center of the star and causes to collapse into the black hole.

at lower - but still extremely high - energy, photodisintegration only knocks one or two protons or neutrons from the core. In higher energies, the entire core is divided apart, but larger and larger energy are required to divide smaller cores.

Photodisintegration has not been studied by scientists in a laboratory context, because the energy needed to start it is too extreme. Perhaps in the future we will build an experimental apparatus that allows closer studying, but by then it seems that theoretical studies are enough.