Effect of Deformation on Alpha Decay of Super-Heavy Nuclei within a Woods-Saxon model
| dc.contributor.author | Surajudeen Shittu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mustapha Abolaji Hammad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-08T13:58:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-08T13:58:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-03-23 | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1115-5876 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/6470 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2(1); 777 | |
| dc.title | Effect of Deformation on Alpha Decay of Super-Heavy Nuclei within a Woods-Saxon model | |
| dc.type | Article |