According to the question ratio of the mass of alpha particle and proton is given as \(\frac{m_{p}}{m_{\alpha}}=\frac{1}{4}\) and the ratio of the charge of proton and alpha particle is given as \(\frac{q_{p}}{q_{\alpha}}=\frac{1}{2}\)
Since the potential difference is generated in them, therefore, energy in the particle is given by,
\(E=q \Delta V\) Here \(\Delta V\) is the potential difference
We know that this energy will be converted into kinetic energy i.e. \(E=q \Delta V=\frac{1}{2} m v^{2}\) (equation 1 ) where v is the velocity of the particle
According to the given information uniform magnetic field is set up perpendicular to the velocities of the proton and alpha particle and since we know that whenever the velocity and the magnetic field are perpendicular to each other particle goes under a circular motion whose radii is represented as;
\(r=\frac{m v}{q B}(\) Equation 2\()\)
Here v is the velocity and B is the magnetic field and q is the charge in the particle
Finding the value of v form equation 1 and substituting in equation 2
\(\frac{2 q \Delta V}{m}=v^{2}\)
\(v=\sqrt{\frac{2 q \Delta V}{m}}\)
Substituting the value of V in the formula of radius of a circular path due to uniform magnetic field acting perpendicular to the velocities of particles.
\(r=\frac{m v}{q B} \Rightarrow r=\frac{m}{q B} \sqrt{\frac{2 q \Delta V}{m}}\)
\(\Rightarrow r=\frac{1}{B} \sqrt{\frac{2 m \Delta V}{q}}\) (Equation 3)
Let use the equation 3 to find the relation of radii
For proton
\(r_{p}=\frac{1}{B} \sqrt{\frac{2 m_{p} \Delta V}{q_{p}}}\)
For alpha particle
\(r_{\alpha}=\frac{1}{B} \sqrt{\frac{2 m_{\alpha} \Delta V}{q_{\alpha}}}\)
By the equation 3 , we can say that \(r \propto \sqrt{\frac{m}{q}}\)
\(\Rightarrow \frac{r_{p}}{r_{\alpha}}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}} \times \sqrt{\frac{2}{1}}\)
Hence, \(\frac{r_{p}}{r_{\alpha}}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\)