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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 549, Issue 3, 16 November 1992, Pages 407-419
Nuclear Physics A

Photon-neutron correlations and microscopic description of alpha decay

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Abstract

The influence of proton-neutron correlations upon the formation of alpha particles is studied within the framework of a generalized BCS approach in an axially deformed Woods-Saxon potential. The enhancement of the total alpha-decay width in the two extreme cases of large and small difference between the number of proton and neutron pairs is estimated.

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