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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

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

A new scheme to study the properties of finite nuclei is proposed based on the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach starting from a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction. The relativistic structure of the nucleon self-energies in nuclear…

Theoretical estimates for the half lives of about 1700 isotopes of heavy elements with Z from 100 to 130 are tabulated using theoretical Q-values. The quantum mechanical tunneling probabilities are calculated within a WKB framework using…

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

Rapid-advancing intense laser technologies enable the possibility of a direct laser-nucleus coupling. In this paper the effect of intense laser fields on a series of nuclear fission processes, including proton decay, alpha decay, and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jintao Qi , Libin Fu , Xu Wang

$\alpha$-decay always has enormous impetuses to the development of physics and chemistry, in particular due to its indispensable role in the research of new elements. Although it has been observed in laboratories for more than a century, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 J. M. Dong , Q. Zhao , L. J. Wang , W. Zuo , J. Z. Gu

Synthesis of new elements at the upper border of the charts of nuclei and investigation of their decay properties and nuclear structure has been one of the main research topics in low energy nuclear physics since more than five decades.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-28 Fritz Peter Hessberger

In this work, we have analyzed the nuclear structure and several prospective decay characteristics of the $^{240-259}$Es$_{99}$ isotopes. For this we use Relativistic Mean Field model (RMF) with NL-SH and NL3* force parameter in an axially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 C. Dash , A. Anupam , I. Naik , B. K. Sharma , B. B. Sahu

The density functional theory (DFT) is based on the existence and uniqueness of a universal functional $E[\rho]$, which determines the dependence of the total energy on single-particle density distributions. However, DFT says nothing about…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Hana Gil , Panagiota Papakonstantinou , Chang Ho Hyun , Tae-Sun Park , Yongseok Oh

A systematic study of the central depletion of proton density has been performed in the isotonic chains of nuclei with neutron numbers $N = 20$ and $28$ using different variants of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) models. These models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Saxena , M. Kumawat , B. K. Agrawal , Mamta Aggarwal

Relativistic energy density functionals (EDF) have become a standard tool for nuclear structure calculations, providing a complete and accurate, global description of nuclear ground states and collective excitations. Guided by the medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tamara Niksic , Dario Vretenar , Peter Ring

This paper investigates the beta decay of nuclei within the sd model space, encompassing the $0d_{3/2}$, $0d_{5/2}$, and $1s_{1/2}$ shells. We comprehensively analyze their decay characteristics, including the half-life, $logft$ value, Q…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-25 Surender Siwach

Bulk and decay properties, including deformation energy curves, charge mean square radii, Gamow-Teller (GT) strength distributions, and beta-decay half-lives, are studied in neutron-deficient even-even and odd-A Hg and Pt isotopes. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 J. M. Boillos , P. Sarriguren

Study of the neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Vogel

Nuclear mean-field models are briefly reviewed to illustrate its foundation and necessity of state dependence in effective interactions. This state dependence is successfully taken into account by the density dependence, leading to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Takashi Nakatsukasa

For r-process nucleosynthesis the beta decay rates of very neutron-rich nuclei are important ingredients. We consider the region around the neutron number N=82 and calculate the half-lives and rates for a number of nuclei. Forms for beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-01 Kamales Kar , Soumya Chakravarti

Two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay has been used to constrain the neutron-proton part of effective interactions, which in turn is used to compute the nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the observation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Nobuo Hinohara , Jonathan Engel

The model of binding alpha-particles in nuclei is suggested. It is shown good (with the accuracy of 1-2%) description of the experimental binding energies in light and medium nuclear systems. Our preliminary calculations show enhancement of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 K. A. Gridnev , S. Yu. Torilov , V. G. Kartavenko , W. Greiner , D. K. Gridnev , J. Hamilton

In spite of numerous scientific and practical applications, there is still no comprehensive theoretical description of the nuclear fission process based solely on protons, neutrons and their interactions. The most advanced simulations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 N. Schunck , K. R. Quinlan , J. Bernstein

In the present work, we systematically study the $\mathcal{\alpha}$ decay preformation factors $P_{\alpha}$ within the cluster-formation model and $\mathcal{\alpha}$ decay half-lives by the proximity potential 1977 formalism for nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 Jun-Gang Deng , Jie-Cheng Zhao , Peng-Cheng Chu , Xiao-Hua Li