https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00359-1
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Screening amendment to the universal decay law for alpha decay
“Horia Hulubei” National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. BOX MG-6, Str. Reactorului no.30, RO-077125, Bucharest, Magurele, Romania
Received:
26
November
2020
Accepted:
17
January
2021
Published online:
28
January
2021
By generalizing the electrostatic interaction by means of a screening effect, one proposed a new empirical formula for the 
decay half lives. In the absence of screening, the formula recovers the universal decay law. The impact of the screening is found to be important only for even Z nuclei and highly sensitive to shell effects, when applied to nuclei with 
. The proposed empirical formulas are also used for the prediction of the half-lives for even Z superheavy nuclei.
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