Nuclear half-lives for α-radioactivity of elements with 100 ⩽ Z ⩽ 130

doi:10.1016/j.adt.2008.01.003

Nuclear half-lives for α-radioactivity of elements with 100 ⩽ Z ⩽ 130

Theoretical estimates for the half-lives of about 1700 isotopes of heavy elements with 100 ⩽ Z ⩽ 130 are tabulated using theoretical Q-values. The quantum mechanical tunneling probabilities are calculated within a WKB framework using microscopic nuclear potentials. The microscopic nucleus-nucleus potentials are obtained by folding the densities of interacting nuclei with a density-dependent M3Y effective nucleon-nucleon interaction. The α-decay half-lives calculated in this formalism using the experimental Q-values were found to be in good agreement over a wide range of experimental data spanning about 20 orders of magnitude. The theoretical Q-values used for the present calculations are extracted from three different mass estimates viz. Myers-Swiatecki, Muntian-Hofmann-Patyk-Sobiczewski, and Koura-Tachibana-Uno-Yamada.

Publication:

Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables

Pub Date:

November 2008

DOI:

10.1016/j.adt.2008.01.003

10.48550/arXiv.0802.4161

arXiv: