On spontaneous fission and α-decay half-lives of atomic nuclei

Abstract

It is shown, that the Gamow-like model with only one adjustable parameter–radius constant—is able to reproduce well the alpha-decay half-lives for all even–even nuclei with the proton number larger than 50. The systematics for odd–A and odd–odd isotopes can be also well described when one introduces an additional hindrance factor. A similar model based on the W J Świa̧tecki idea from 1955 is developed to reproduce the spontaneous fission half-lives of transactinide nuclei. The achieved accuracy of reproduction of the data is better than that obtained in more advanced theories.