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Published on: July 27, 2018
Systematics of proton emission
D S Delion1, R J Liotta, R Wyss
1National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, POB MG-6, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania.
Abstract:
A very simple formula is presented that relates the logarithm of the half-life, corrected by the centrifugal barrier, with the Coulomb parameter in proton decay processes. The corresponding experimental data lie on two straight lines which appear as a result of a sudden change in the nuclear shape marking two regions of deformation independently of the angular momentum of the outgoing proton. This feature provides a powerful tool to assign experimentally quantum numbers in proton emitters.
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