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On the α-decay of deformed actinide nuclei

T. L. Stewart, M. W. Kermode, D. J. Beachey, N. Rowley, I. S. Grant, A. T. Kruppa

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9605040

Abstract

α-decay through a deformed potential barrier produces significant mixing of angular momenta when mapped from the nuclear interior to the outside. Using experimental branching ratios and either semi-classical or coupled-channels transmission matrices, we have found that there is a set of internal amplitudes which are essentially constant for all even--even actinide nuclei. These same amplitudes also give good results for the known anisotropic α-particle emission of the favored decays of odd nuclei in the same mass region. PACS numbers: 23.60.+e, 24.10.Eq, 27.90.+b

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