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Where is the "tunneling" in beta-decay?
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The negative conventional answer is correct assuming that we are really
concerned about nuclear *decay*, which is not a thermally activated
process, and is instead, typically, a quantum tunnelling-like process
whose relevant energy scale is on the order of MeV (1 eV = 11604 K).