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The double-beta (2$\beta$)-decay is the rarest nuclear physics process, and its experimental half-lives (T$_{1/2}$) exceed the age of the Universe from nine to fourteen orders of magnitude. Double-beta decay was observed, and its half-life…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-26 B. Pritychenko , V. I. Tretyak

Finding the best model to describe the {\alpha}-decay process is an old and ongoing challenge in nuclear physics. The present work systematically studied {\alpha}-decay half-lives for the favored ground-state-to-ground-state transitions of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-17 O. N. Ghodsi , A. Daei-Ataollah

The concept of heavy particle radioactivity (HPR) is changed to allow emitted particles with Z_e>28 from parents with Z>110 and daughter around 208Pb. Calculations for superheavy (SH) nuclei with Z=104-124 are showing a trend toward shorter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 D. N. Poenaru , R. A. Gherghescu , W. Greiner

A systematic study on $\alpha$-decay half-lives for the nuclei in the range $93\leq Z \leq 118$ is done by employing various versions of proximity potentials. To obtain the more reliable results, the deformation terms are included up to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 M. Hassanzad , O. N. Ghodsi

For $\alpha$ decay half-life calculations in this work, the Coulomb and proximity potential model with a new semiempirical formula for diffuseness parameter developed in previous work [Phys. Rev. C 100, 024601 (2019)] is used. The present…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-19 Omar Nagib

Half life values for proton radioactivity in nuclei have been calculated in the WKB approximation. The microscopic proton-nucleus potential has been obtained by folding the densities of daughter nuclei with two microscopic NN interactions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Madhubrata Bhattacharya , G. Gangopadhyay

In present work, we systematically study the $\alpha$ decay half-lives of 170 even-even nuclei with $60 \leqslant Z \leqslant 118$ within the two-potential approach while the $\alpha$ decay preformation factor $P_\alpha$ is obtained by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-11 H. M. Liu , J. Y. Xu , J. G. Deng , B. He , X. H. Li

Nuclear radial distance is a prerequisite for generating any alpha-decay half-life formula by taking a suitable effective potential. We study the emission process of alpha particles from an isolated quasi-bound state generated by an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Swagatika Bhoi , Basudeb Sahu

In the Coulomb and Proximity Potential Model (CPPM) framework, we have investigated the cluster radioactivity and alpha decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei. We study 22 different versions of proximity potential forms that have been…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Xuanpeng Xiao , Panpan Qi , Gongming Yu , Haitao Yang , Qiang Hu

The influence of nuclear deformation on proton-decay half-lives has been systematically studied in microscopic theoretical frameworks for a wide range of nuclei with Z<82. Correlation between 1p-decay half-lives and the deformed nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-27 A. Jain , Pranali Parab , G. Saxena , Mamta Aggarwal

The experimentally available data on the alpha decay half lives and Q? values for 96 superheavy nuclei are used to fix the parameters for a modified version of the Brown empirical formula through two fitting procedures which enables its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 A. I. Budaca , R. Budaca , I. Silisteanu

Four groups (even-even, even-odd, odd-even and odd-odd) of heavy and super-heavy nuclei are of interest for the synthesis of the isotopes with $Z=119, 120$. We report calculations of $\alpha$~decay half-lives using four models: AKRA…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-10 D. N. Poenaru , R. A. Gherghescu

Nuclear double $\beta ^-$-decays with two neutrinos were observed for many years and a systematic law describing the relation between their half-lives and decay energies was also proposed recently [Phys. Rev. C89, 064603 (2014)]. However,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-08 Yuejiao Ren , Zhongzhou Ren

Relatively low energy and very enhanced alpha-particle groups have been observed in various actinide fractions produced via secondary reactions in a CERN W target which had been irradiated with 24-GeV protons. In particular, 5.14, 5.27 and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-13 A. Marinov , S. Gelberg , D. Kolb , J. L. Weil

The Geiger-Nuttall (GN) law relates the partial $\alpha$-decay half-life with the energy of the escaping $\alpha$ particle and contains for every isotopic chain two experimentally determined coefficients. The expression is supported by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-03 C. Qi , A. N. Andreyev , M. Huyse , R. J. Liotta , P. Van Duppen , R. Wyss

Half-life estimates for neutrinoless double beta decay depend on particle physics models for lepton flavor violation, as well as on nuclear physics models for the structure and transitions of candidate nuclei. Different models considered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. M. Rotunno

A broad extension of periodic system into the sector of antimatter could be possible sometimes in a remote future. We expect that anti-alpha spontaneous emission from an antimatter nucleus will have the same Q-value and half-life as alpha…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-28 D. N. Poenaru , R. A. Gherghescu , W. Greiner

In this paper, we have calculated the $\alpha$-decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei with $106 \leq Z \leq 126$ and a neutron number of $150 \leq N \leq 200$ within proximity potentials and deformed-spherical Coulomb potentials by using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 O. N. Ghodsi , M. Hassanzad

An extensive study of $\alpha$-decay half-lives for various decay chains of isotopes of $Z$ = 120 is performed within the axially deformed relativistic mean-field (RMF) formalism by employing the NL3, NL3$^*$, and DD-ME2 parameter set. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-30 N. Biswal , Nishu Jain , Raj Kumar , A. S. Pradeep , M. Bhuyan

A systematic study on the alpha decay half lives of various isotopes of superheavy element \textit{Z} = 121 within the range 290 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 339 is presented for the first time using Coulomb and proximity potential model for deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-22 K. P. Santhosh , C. Nithya