Unified description of α decay and cluster radioactivity using the neural network approach and universal decay law

Abstract

The α decay and cluster radioactivity half-life of nuclei are calculated uniformly. The universal decay law (UDL) (Qi et al 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 072501) is refitted to include minimum angular momentum effect and unpaired nucleon effect. The UDL formula and neural network approach to describe α decay and cluster radioactivity half-life calculations were improved. We used the UDL formulas and neural network approach to predict the cluster radioactivity half-life of actinide nuclei and α decay half-life of superheavy nuclei Z = 117–120. We hope to contribute to the discovery of new atomic nucleus cluster radioactivity phenomena and theoretical studies of α decay of superheavy nuclei.