Abstract
In the present work, we systematically study the α decay half-lives of neptunium (Z = 93) isotopes within a one-parameter model (OPM). The calculated results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data. Noticeably, the recently measured α decay half-life value of ns for 222Np [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032 502 (2020)] has been fairly reproduced by the OPM as 780 ns within a factor of ≈2. In addition, we extend this model to predict α decay half-lives of neptunium isotopes whose α decay is energetically allowed or observed but not yet quantified in NUBASE2016. Meanwhile, it is found that the half-life between the neutron number N = 126 and N = 128 in Np drop sharply, this result shows that the N = 126 shell closure is still very robust at Z = 93. At last, α particle preformation probability are extracted in two cases with α transition orbital angular momentum l = 0 and l = 1, we find a amazing phenomenon that the are basically the same for α transition with the same orbital angular momentum l.
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