Enhancement of α -particle formation near Sn 100

Autor: Clark, RM, Macchiavelli, AO, Crawford, HL, Fallon, P, Rudolph, D, Såmark-Roth, A, Campbell, CM, Cromaz, M, Morse, C, Santamaria, C
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review C, vol 101, iss 3
Popis: 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 Sn100 when compared to analogous nuclei above Pb208. 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 Te104 and Xe108 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.
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