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Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability

Pfützner. Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability. Reviews of Modern Physics.

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DOI
10.1103/revmodphys.84.567
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https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.84.567

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  • Proton Emission
    • Barrier penetrability can make an energetically open state live long enough to be observed as radioactivity

      This sourceReviews of Modern Physics, 2012. Pfützner et al. state the condition directly: only when the penetration probability through the barrier — fixed by the decay energy and the angular momentum of the initial state — is large enough does particle emission compete with beta decay and appear as radioactivity. Pfützner et al. draw the contrast explicitly: unbound neutrons feel no Coulomb barrier, only the far weaker centrifugal term, so a system with negative neutron separation energy lives too short to be qualified as radioactive.

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