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Gamows alpha decay theory revisited

Nuclear Theory 2023-02-27 v3

Abstract

G. Gamow's alpha-decay theory (1928), although successful, has a wrong phenomenological argument that an alpha-particle inside a radioactive nucleus moves back and forth through the dense mass of nucleons (retaining its identity) a number of times before it comes out. This short paper seeks to get over this shortcoming by deriving principally the Gamow's theory through a slightly alternative approach by avoiding the problematic touching frequency in the original theory.

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@article{arxiv.2112.09578,
  title  = {Gamows alpha decay theory revisited},
  author = {K. D. Krori and Samrat Dey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.09578},
  year   = {2023}
}
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