Fission Half-lives Of Nuclei Research Articles

Alpha-decay and spontaneous fission half-lives of super-heavy nuclei around the doubly magic nucleus270Hs

The α-decay and spontaneous fission half-lives of nuclei around 270 Hs are calculated with formulas derived from an in-depth analysis of the available experimental data and of results of theoretical models. The parameters of these formulas result from the fit of half-lives with respect to the reaction energies, the height of the SF barrier and the fissionability. The calculated partial and total half-lives are compared with the experimental data and results of other approximations. Half-life predictions are made for many unknown nuclei.

ROLE OF THE ZERO-POINT CORRECTIONS IN FISSION DYNAMICS

The way of evaluating spontaneous fission half-lives of nuclei in a multidimensional deformation space is discussed. The cranking as well as the generator coordinate method were used to obtain the collective inertia tensor and the 'zero-point' corrections to the fission barriers. The fission probability was evaluated within the WKB approximation along the least-action trajectory to fission. The influence on the fission life-times of the dynamics in the pairing degrees of freedom as well as the effect of the higher even-multipolarity shape parameters and the role of the reflection asymmetry is examined.