Effect of Deformation on Alpha Decay of Super-Heavy Nuclei within a Woods-Saxon model
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2025-03-23
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Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences
Abstract
In this research, alpha decay study of super-heavy nuclei has been carried out by employing the Woods-Saxon model potential.
The spherical and deformed Woods-Saxon model have been employed to investigate the effect of deformation on the super-heavy
nuclei via alpha decay. When compared with experimental data, the two models are found to perform very well in describing
the experimental half-life data. Moreover, results obtained by considering deformation is found to give better agreement with the
experimental data than the results using spherical configuration. This is mainly because the super-heavy nuclei have non-zero
deformation parameters. The study concludes that deformation should be considered when studying super-heavy nuclei, and that the
deformed Woods-Saxon model is more complete in describing the interaction between the alpha decay and the daughter nuclei as it
has a low standard deviation value of 0.5012 compared to 0.6260 when only sphericity is considered.