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The alpha-decay half-lives of recently synthesized superheavy nuclei (SHN) are investigated based on a unified fission model (UFM) where a new method to calculate the assault frequency of alpha-emission is used. The excellent agreement with…

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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…

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Recently synthesis of superheavy nuclei has been achieved in hot fusion reactions. A systematic theoretical calculation of alpha decay half-lives in this region of the periodic system, may be useful in the identification of new nuclei in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-15 Frank Bello , Javier Aguilera , Oscar Rodríguez

The half lives are calculated for the process of $\beta^\pm$ decay and electron capture for nuclei in mass range $\sim$ 65 - 100 relevant for the core of a massive star at late burning stage of steller evolution that leads to supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasish Majumdar , Kamales Kar

In the present work, we study {\alpha} decay and proton emission half-lives within the modified Gamow-like model, which introduces the effects of the nucleus's deformation. The calculations show that it is necessary to consider the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Qiong Xiao , Jun-Hao Cheng , Tong-Pu Yu

In this work, the beta-decay halflives problem is dealt as a nonlinear optimization problem, which is resolved in the statistical framework of Machine Learning (LM). Continuing past similar approaches, we have constructed sophisticated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-09-03 N. J. Costiris , E. Mavrommatis , K. A. Gernoth , J. W. Clark , H. Li

Based on the recent data in NUBASE2012, an improved empirical formula for evaluating the $\alpha$-decay half-lives is presented, in which the hindrance effect resulted from the change of the ground state spins and parities of parent and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Y. Wang , Z. M. Niu , Q. Liu , J. Y. Guo

Ab-initio calculations of nuclear masses, the binding energy and the $\alpha$ decay half-lives are intractable for heavy nucleus, because of the curse of dimensionality in many body quantum simulations as proton number($\mathrm{N}$) and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Chen-Qi Li , Chao-Nan Tong , Hong-Jing Du , Long-Gang Pang

Theoretical estimates of $\alpha$-decay half lives of several nuclei in the decay from element 113 are presented. Calculations in a WKB framework using DDM3Y interaction and experimental Q-values are in good agreement with the experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Roy Chowdhury , D. N. Basu , C. Samanta

In the present work considering the contributions of the daughter nuclear charge and the orbital angular momentum taken away by the emitted proton, we propose a two-parameter formula of new Geiger-Nuttall law for proton radioactivity. A set…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Jiu-Long Chen , Jun-Yao Xu , Jun-Gang Deng , Xiao-Hua Li , Biao He , Peng-Cheng Chu

Experimental $\alpha$-decay half-life, spin, and parity of 398 nuclei in the range 50$\leq$Z$\leq$118 are utilized to propose a new formula (QF) with only 4 coefficients as well as to modify the Tagepera-Nurmia formula with just 3…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 G. Saxena , A. Jain , P. K. Sharma

A series of findings in machine learning (ML) and decay theory are captured while exploring the role of deformation and preformation factors in {\alpha} decay. We provide a novel and practical paradigm for developing physics-driven machine…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Ruixiong Li , Jingyu Xiao , Hongfei Zhang , Nana Ma

Theoretical estimates for the lifetimes of several isotopes of heavy elements with Z=102-120 are presented by calculating the quantum mechanical tunneling probability in a WKB framework and using microscopic nucleus-nucleus potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-06-13 C. Samanta , P. Roy Chowdhury , D. N. Basu

A new semiempirical formula, with only three parameters, is proposed for cluster decay half-lives. The parameters of the formula are obtained by making a least square fit to the available experimental data. The calculated half-lives are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-14 M. Balasubramaniam , S. Kumarasamy , N. Arunachalam , Raj K. Gupta

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

The $\beta$-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei with $20 \leqslant Z \leqslant 50$ are systematically investigated using the newly developed fully self-consistent proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA), based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-27 Z. M. Niu , Y. F. Niu , H. Z. Liang , W. H. Long , T. Nikšić , D. Vretenar , J. Meng

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

Alpha and cluster decays are analyzed for heavy nuclei located above $^{208}$Pb on the chart of nuclides: $^{216-220}$Rn and $^{220-224}$Ra, that are also candidates for observing the $2 \alpha$ decay mode. A microscopic theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 J. Zhao , J. -P. Ebran , L. Heitz , E. Khan , F. Mercier , T. Niksic , D. Vretenar

Statistical modeling of nuclear data using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and, more recently, support vector machines (SVMs), is providing novel approaches to systematics that are complementary to phenomenological and semi-microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 N. Costiris , E. Mavrommatis , K. A. Gernoth , J. W. Clark

We present the beta decay half-lives calculation for selected even even nuclei that decay through electron emission. The kinematical portion of the half-life calculation was performed using a recently introduced technique for computation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Jameel-Un Nabi , Mavra Ishfaq , Ovidiu Nitescu , Mihail Mirea , Sabin Stoica