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On the $\alpha-$decay of deformed actinide nuclei

Nuclear Theory 2009-01-23 v1

Abstract

α\alpha-decay through a deformed potential barrier produces significant mixing of angular momenta when mapped from the nuclear interior to the outside. Using experimental branching ratios and either semi-classical or coupled-channels transmission matrices, we have found that there is a set of internal amplitudes which are essentially constant for all even--even actinide nuclei. These same amplitudes also give good results for the known anisotropic α\alpha-particle emission of the favored decays of odd nuclei in the same mass region. PACS numbers: 23.60.+e, 24.10.Eq, 27.90.+b

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9605040,
  title  = {On the $\alpha-$decay of deformed actinide nuclei},
  author = {T. L. Stewart and M. W. Kermode and D. J. Beachey and N. Rowley and I. S. Grant and A. T. Kruppa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9605040},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, latex (revtex style), 2 embedded postscript figures uuencoded gz-compressed .tar file To appear in Physical Review Letters