Practice mode Nuclear Physics

When a nucleus undergoes beta-minus decay, what happens to its mass number and atomic number?

Correct answer C. A stays the same and Z increases by 1

Explanation

A neutron becomes a proton, so the nucleon number A is unchanged while the proton number Z rises by 1.

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