Authors: BASUDEB SAHU
Publish Date: 2014/04/09
Volume: 82, Issue: 4, Pages: 717-725
Abstract
A general decay formula for the emission of charged particles from metastable nuclei is developed based on the basic phenomenon of resonances occurring in quantum scattering process under Coulombnuclear potential It relates the halflives of radioactive decays with the Q values of the outgoing elements with masses and charges of the nuclei involved in the decay The relation is found to be a generalization of the Geiger–Nuttall law in α radioactivity and explains well all the known emissions of charged particles including clusters alpha and proton
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