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Beta decay is a well-established and efficient probe of nuclear structure and provides important information also for halo nuclei. Detailed decay studies of near-dripline nuclei are challenging, but are now feasible due to the technical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-11 Karsten Riisager

We analyze if the nucleon structure of the $\alpha$ decaying nucleus can be visible in the experimental bremsstrahlung spectra of the emitted photons which accompany such a decay. We develop a new formalism of the bremsstrahlung model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Peng-Ming Zhang , Li-Ping Zou

The high energy spectrum of alpha particles emitted from a single isotope uniformly contaminating a bulk solid has a flat energy spectrum with a high end cutoff energy equal to the maximal alpha kinetic energy ($T_{\alpha}$) of the decay.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-13 Richard W. Kadel

Using the exponentially diffuse boundary potential of Green and Lee (1955), we develop a Mathematica notebook to treat alpha decay by using the complex energy approach of Preston (1947), as modified by Pierronne and Marquez (1978). Our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Eugene F. Chaffin , Daniel S. Banks

It is common to study the strong decay of a heavy nucleus as a tunneling phenomenon where the $\alpha$ ($^4$He) or a light nuclear cluster tunnels through the Coulomb barrier formed by its interaction with the heavier daughter nucleus. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 D. F. Rojas-Gamboa , J. E. Perez Velasquez , N. G. Kelkar , N. J. Upadhyay

Large-scale shell-model calculations have been performed for the study of two neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{82}$Se, $^{94}$Zr, $^{108}$Cd, $^{124}$Sn, $^{128}$Te, $^{130}$Te, $^{136}$Xe, and $^{150}$Nd. We have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Deepak Patel , Praveen C. Srivastava , V. K. B. Kota , R. Sahu

Half-lives of radionuclides span more than 50 orders of magnitude. We characterize the probability distribution of this broad-range data set at the same time that explore a method for fitting power-laws and testing goodness-of-fit. It is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-28 Alvaro Corral , Francesc Font , Juan Camacho

New experimental data of the comparative analysis of channels of the production of three \alpha-particles and ^12C nuclei in ^16Op-collisions at 3.25 A GeV/c are submitted. It is shown, that the channel with the three \alpha-particles…

Background: Whether or not the $\alpha$ ($^4$He nucleus) clustering exists in the medium-mass region of nuclear systems is a fundamental and intriguing question. However, the recent analysis of the $\alpha$ knockout reaction on $^{48}$Ti…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Okada , W. Horiuchi , N. Itagaki

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

The ground-state spin and parity of a formed daughter in the radioactive Alpha-emitter is expected to influence the preformation probability of the Alpha and daughter clusters inside it. We investigate the Alpha and daughter preformation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 W. M. Seif , M. M. Botros , A. I. Refaie

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

The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions of 84^Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from various projectiles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-07-17 M. K. Singh , Ramji Pathak , V. Singh

Results from the study of $\beta^-$-decay of $^{45}$Cl, produced in the fragmentation of a 140-MeV/u $^{48}$Ca beam, are presented. The half-life for $^{45}$Cl $\beta$-decay is measured to be 513(36) ms. The $\beta^-$ and $\beta^- 1n$ decay…

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

The framework to describe natural phenomena at their basics being quantum mechanics, there exist a large number of common global phenomena occurring in different branches of natural sciences. One such global phenomenon is spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. G. Kelkar , M. Nowakowski , K. P. Khemchandani

In the present work, we report a systematic theoretical study of the $\log ft$ values for the forbidden $\beta^-$ decay transitions in the $^{208}$Pb region. For this, we have considered $^{206}$Hg $\rightarrow$ $^{206}$Tl, $^{208}$Hg…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-29 P. C. Srivastava , S. Sharma , A. Kumar , P. Choudhary

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

In this work study on alpha decay chains emerging from isotopes of Z = 122 superheavy nuclei is carried out with emphasize on nuclear deformations and Langer modification. The interest in this particular superheavy nuclei is due to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-11 G. Naveya , S. I. A. Philominraj , A. Stephen

The de-excitation of alpha-conjugate nuclei produced in reactions of 35 MeV/nucleon 40Ca with 40Ca has been investigated. Particular emphasis is placed on examining the dynamics of collisions leading to projectile-like fragment exit…