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Enhancement of α-particle formation near 100Sn

Clark, R. M. ; Macchiavelli, A. O. ; Crawford, H. L. ; Fallon, P. ; Rudolph, D. LU orcid ; Såmark-Roth, A. LU ; Campbell, C. M. ; Cromaz, M. ; Morse, C. and Santamaria, C. (2020) In Physical Review C 101(3).
Abstract
The superfluid tunneling model is applied to the calculation of ground-state–to–ground-state α decay in the even-even neutron-deficient Te-Ba nuclei. We show that there is a larger α-particle formation probability in nuclei of this region above 100Sn when compared to analogous nuclei above 208Pb. This is consistent with the expected systematic variation of the pair gap Δ as a function of mass number. The recent experimental data on the α decay of the N = Z nuclei 104Te and 108Xe are shown to leave open the possibility of enhanced α-particle formation involving nucleon correlations beyond the standard treatment of like-nucleon pairing, which is the mechanism suggested as underlying... (More)
The superfluid tunneling model is applied to the calculation of ground-state–to–ground-state α decay in the even-even neutron-deficient Te-Ba nuclei. We show that there is a larger α-particle formation probability in nuclei of this region above 100Sn when compared to analogous nuclei above 208Pb. This is consistent with the expected systematic variation of the pair gap Δ as a function of mass number. The recent experimental data on the α decay of the N = Z nuclei 104Te and 108Xe are shown to leave open the possibility of enhanced α-particle formation involving nucleon correlations beyond the standard treatment of like-nucleon pairing, which is the mechanism suggested as underlying “superallowed” α decay. (Less)
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alpha decay, superfluid tunneling model
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Physical Review C
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101
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3
article number
034313
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6 pages
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American Physical Society
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2469-9985
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.101.034313
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Characterization of New Superheavy Elements
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English
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  author       = {{Clark, R. M. and Macchiavelli, A. O. and Crawford, H. L. and Fallon, P. and Rudolph, D. and Såmark-Roth, A. and Campbell, C. M. and Cromaz, M. and Morse, C. and Santamaria, C.}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{03}},
  number       = {{3}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review C}},
  title        = {{Enhancement of α-particle formation near <sup>100</sup>Sn}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/78199850/PhysRevC.101.034313.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevC.101.034313}},
  volume       = {{101}},
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