Universal decay law in charged-particle emission and exotic cluster radioactivity.
A linear universal decay formula is presented starting from the microscopic mechanism of the charged-particle emission. It relates the half-lives of monopole radioactive decays with the Q values of the outgoing particles as well as the masses and charges of the nuclei involved in the decay. This relation is found to be a generalization of the Geiger-Nuttall law in alpha radioactivity and explains well all known cluster decays. Predictions on the most likely emissions of various clusters are presented.
School of Physics, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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