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Purpose: Our objective is to apply an improved statistical global model of beta^- decay half-life systematics [1] generated by machine-learning techniques to the prediction of beta half-lives relevant to r-process nuclei. The primary aim of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-04 N. J. Costiris , E. Mavrommatis , K. A. Gernoth , J. W. Clark

$\alpha$ decay is one of the prominent decay modes in the nucleosynthesis of heavy and super-heavy elements synthesized at temperatures of the order of Giga Kelvin. To facilitate the investigation of the role played by the $\alpha$ decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 D. F. Rojas-Gamboa , N. G. Kelkar , O. L. Caballero

The heavy and superheavy elements of the periodic table predominately disintegrate by {\alpha}-decay, facilitating transitions mainly between ground states and occasionally involving isomeric states. This study focuses on estimating the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-19 A. Jain , M. Imran , G. Saxena

The $\alpha$-decay half-lives of 204 superheavy nuclei covering the range $114 \leq Z \leq 126$ have been investigated using the relativistic mean-field model (RMF) for NL3$^*$ parameter set. The ground state bulk properties such as binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-26 Nishu Jain , Raj Kumar , M. Bhuyan

Recently, experimental researches on the $\alpha$ decay with long lifetime are one of hot topics in the contemporary nuclear physics [e.g. N. Kinoshita {\sl et al.} (2012) and J. W. Beeman {\sl et al.} (2012) ]. In this study, we have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-13 Yibin Qian , Zhongzhou Ren

We employ, within the framework of Skyrme energy-density functional theory, the subtracted second random-phase approximation, recently developed for charge-exchange excitations, to compute $\beta$-decay half-lives in four nuclei, $^{24}$O,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Danilo Gambacurta , Marcella Grasso

We develop a versatile and analytically solvable potential which fairly reproduces the combined potential of an $\alpha+$nucleus system resulting from both the attractive nuclear and repulsive electrostatic potentials. The potential is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-14 Swagatika Bhoi , Basudeb Sahu

The microscopic description of alpha decay from the nucleons' degree of freedom involves a two-step process. The first consists of the clusterization of neutron and proton pairs; the second involves the tunneling process. A robust protocol…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 A. C. Dassie , R. M. Id Betan

A detailed study of $\alpha$-clusters decay is exhibited by incorporating crucial microscopic nuclear structure information into the estimations of half-life and preformation factor. For the first time, using the k-cross validation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Saxena , P. K. Sharma , Prafulla Saxena

$\alpha$ decay is a common and important process for natural radioactivity of heavy and superheavy nuclei. The $\alpha$ decay half-lives for even-even nuclei from Z=62 to Z=118 are systematically researched based on the two-potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-22 Xiao-Dong Sun , Ping Guo , Xiao-Hua Li

Nonmesonic weak decays of s-shell hypernuclei are analyzed in microscopic models for the Lambda N to NN weak interaction. A scalar-isoscalar meson, sigma, is introduced and its importance in accounting the decay rates, n/p ratios and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Sasaki , M. Izaki , M. Oka

We propose formulas of the nuclear beta-decay rate that are useful in a practical calculation. The decay rate is determined by the product of the lepton and hadron current densities. A widely used formula relies upon the fact that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 W. Horiuchi , T. Sato , Y. Uesaka , K. Yoshida

Spontaneous-fission half-lives of the heaviest even-even nuclei are evaluated and compared with their alpha-decay mode. Calculations of spontaneous-fission half-lives are performed in the dynamical way with potential energy obtained by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 A. Staszczak , Z. Lojewski , A. Baran , B. Nerlo-Pomorska , K. Pomorski

The Royer law is a widely used empirical relation for calculating alpha-decay half-lives; however, it requires 12 parity-dependent parameters.It exhibits systematic deviations near the shell closure. We propose an improved Royer law by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Kai Ren , Pengfei Ma , Minghui Hu , Junlong Tian

Half life values for $\alpha$-decay in the mass region $A=150-200$ have been calculated in the Microscopic Super Asymmetric Fission Model. The interaction between the $\alpha$-particle and the daughter nucleus has been obtained in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-12 G. Gangopadhyay

We have calculated the $\beta^+$ decay of the proton rich nuclei $^{44}$V in a full fp-shell valence space. We obtain a theoretical half-life of 71~ms compared with the experimental value t$_{1/2}$ = 90 $\pm$ 25 ms. Besides, we make…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Martinez-Pinedo , A. Poves

The decay of the free neutron into a proton, electron, and antineutrino is the prototype semileptonic weak decay and the simplest example of nuclear beta decay. The nucleon vector and axial vector weak coupling constants G_V and G_A…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-14 F. E. Wietfeldt

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

Nuclear decays with simultaneous emission of two alpha particles are energetically possible for a number of nuclides. Prospects of searching for such kind of decay for nuclides present in the natural isotopic composition of elements are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-05-30 V. I. Tretyak

The $\mathcal{\alpha}$ decay half-life of unknown nucleus $^{297}$Og is predicted within two-potential approach, and $\mathcal{\alpha}$ preformation probabilities of 64 odd-$A$ nuclei in the region of proton numbers $82<Z<126$ and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Jun-Gang Deng , Jun-Hao Cheng , Bo Zheng , Xiao-Hua Li