Abstract
Background: The process of β-delayed fission (βDF) provides a versatile tool to study low-energy fission in nuclei far away from the β-stability line, especially for nuclei which do not fission spontaneously.
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate systematic trends in βDF partial half-lives.
Method: A semi-phenomenological framework was developed to systematically account for the behavior of βDF partial half-lives.
Results: The βDF partial half-life appears to exponentially depend on the difference between the Q value for β decay of the parent nucleus and the fission-barrier energy of the daughter (after β decay) product. Such dependence was found to arise naturally from some simple theoretical considerations.
Conclusions: This systematic trend was confirmed for experimental βDF partial half-lives spanning over seven orders of magnitude when using fission barriers calculated from either the Thomas-Fermi or the liquid-drop fission model. The same dependence was also observed, although less pronounced, when comparing to fission
barriers from the finite-range liquid-drop model or the Thomas-Fermi plus Strutinsky integral method.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 044314-044314 |
Journal | Physical Review C |
Volume | 91 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 16 Apr 2015 |