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One of the prominent decay modes of heavy nuclei which are produced in astrophysical environments at temperatures of the order of $10^9$ K is the $\alpha$ ($^4$He) decay. Thermally enhanced $\alpha$ decay rates are evaluated within the…

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The $\alpha$-decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei with $100 \leq Z \leq 120$ are comprehensively analyzed using the axially deformed relativistic mean field (RMF) formalism for the NL3$^*$ parameter set. We employ RMF binding energies to…

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Upon increasing significantly the nuclear elongation, the beta-decay energy grows. This paper investigates within a simple yet partly microscopic approach, the transition rate of the beta decay of the 252Cf nucleus on the way to scission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-13 K. Pomorski , B. Nerlo-Pomorska , P. Quentin

To find candidates for long-lived high-K isomers in even-even Z=106-112 superheavy nuclei we study dominant alpha-decay channel of two- and four-quasi-particle configurations at a low excitation. Energies are calculated within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 P. Jachimowicz , M. Kowal , J. Skalski

A general shell model formalism for the nonmesonic weak decay of the hypernuclei has been developed. It involves a partial wave expansion of the emitted nucleon waves, preserves naturally the antisymmetrization between the escaping…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Barbero , D. Horvat , F. Krmpotic , T. T. S. Kuo , Z. Naranvcic , D. Tadić

A semi-microscopic model for the low-energy photodisintegration of the 9Be nucleus is constructed, and the experimental data are analyzed with its help. The older radioactive isotope data are supported by this analysis. The theoretical…

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The proton radioactivity lifetimes of spherical proton emitters from the ground and the isomeric states are calculated using the microscopic nucleon-nucleus interaction potentials. The daughter nuclei density distributions are folded with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Roy Chowdhury , C. Samanta , D. N. Basu

In this work, we expand upon our previous study, the effect of surface vibrations (low-lying vibrational states) on the calculation of penetration probability in alpha decay of spherical isotopes [Phys.Rev.C91,034611(2015)]. To this aim,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-28 O. N. Ghodsi , E. Gholami

Electromagnetic multipole responses are key inputs to model the structure, decay and reaction of atomic nuclei. With the introduction of the finite amplitude method (FAM), large-scale calculations of the nuclear linear response in heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-23 Tong Li , Nicolas Schunck , Mike Grosskopf

In the study of $\alpha$ decay within the superheavy nuclear region ($Z \geq 90$ and $N \geq 140$), the $\alpha$-particle preformation probability $P_{\alpha}$ serves as a crucial physical quantity linking nuclear structure to decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiao-Yan Zhu , Hao Zhang , Wei Gao , Wen-Jing Xing , Wen-Bin Lin , Xiao-Hua Li

A detailed model for the calculation of beta decay rates of the $fp$ shell nuclei for situations prevailing in pre-supernova and collapse phases of evolution of the core of massive stars leading to supernova explosion has been extended for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kar , S. Chakravarti , A. Ray , S. Sarkar

A calculation of two-neutrino double-$\beta$ ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay matrix elements within the interacting boson model (IBM) that is based on the nuclear density functional theory is presented. The constrained self-consistent mean-field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Kosuke Nomura

The present paper is comprised of two parts. First, we give a brief survey of the theoretical framework for microscopic nuclear structure calculations starting from a free nucleon-nucleon potential. Then, we present some selected results of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Covello , L. Coraggio , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

A phenomenological alpha-cluster model based on np-pair interactions and the charge symmetry of nuclear force allows one to estimate the Coulomb energy, the Coulomb radius R_C, the Coulomb energy of the last proton interaction with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-26 G. K. Nie

Theoretical decay half-lives of the heaviest odd-Z nuclei are calculated using the experimental Q value. The barriers in the quasimolecular shape path are determined within a Generalized Liquid Drop Model (GLDM) and the WKB approximation is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. F. Zhang , G. Royer

A detailed comparison of the expressions for the decay widths obtained within the semiclassical WKB approximation using different approaches to the tunneling problem is performed. The differences between the available improved formulae for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. G. Kelkar , H. M. Castaneda

Nuclear $\beta$ decay is a key process to understand the origin of heavy elements in the universe, while the accuracy is far from satisfactory for the predictions of $\beta$-decay half-lives by nuclear models up to date. In this letter, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Z. M. Niu , H. Z. Liang , B. H. Sun , W. H. Long , Y. F. Niu

Emission processes including $\alpha$-decay, heavy cluster decays, proton and di-proton emission are analyzed in terms of the well known factorisation between the penetrability and reduced width. By using a shifted harmonic oscilator plus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-01 D. S. Delion

In recent years, artificial neural network (ANN) has been successfully applied in nuclear physics and some other areas of physics. This study begins with the calculations of {\alpha}-decay half-lives for some neutron-deficient nuclei using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 A. A. Saeed , W. A. Yahya , O. K. Azeez

A microscopic formulation of the interacting boson-fermion model for odd-$A$ nuclei is made using the nuclear energy density functional framework. Strength parameters for the bosonic Hamiltonian and boson-fermion interactions are shown to…

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