Bibcode
Giardina, Giorgio; Fazio, Giovanni; Mandaglio, Giuseppe; Manganaro, M.; Maydanyuk, Serghei P.; Olkhovsky, Vladislav S.; Eremin, Nikolay V.; Paskhalov, Anton A.; Smirnov, Dmitry A.; Saccá, Carmelo
Bibliographical reference
Modern Physics Letters A, Volume 23, Issue 31, pp. 2651-2663 (2008).
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2008
Citations
28
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16
Description
We obtained the spectrum of probability of the bremsstrahlung emission
accompanying the α-decay of 226Ra (Eα
= 4.8 MeV) by measuring the α-γ coincidences and using the
model presented in our previous study on the α-decay of
214Po (Eα = 7.7 MeV). We compare the
experimental data with the quantum mechanical calculation and find a
good agreement between theory and experiment. We discuss the differences
between the photon spectra connected with the α-decay of the
226Ra and 214Po nuclei. For the two mentioned
nuclei, we analyze the bremsstrahlung emission contributions from the
tunneling and external regions of the nucleus barrier into the total
spectrum, and we find the destructive interference between these
contributions. We also find that the emission of photons during
tunneling of the α-particle gives an important contribution to the
bremsstrahlung spectrum in the whole Eγ energy range of
the studied 226Ra nucleus.