What *are* the different isotopes of copper and nickel, and what are their decay paths, and the half-life of each isotope? What are the by-products of decay at each step? Can these be detected and linked to that step of decay with specificity?
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If all you're doing is stuffing a single proton in there you ought to get some other result.
So, tell us how you are going to do it ~ 1 low velocity proton, or maybe even a neutron, into one nickel atom, or maybe 10,000 protons bearing down on a single atom ~ somewhere in there.
I'm just guessing that if it's one proton, one nucleus and go we should have a simple result.