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| Authors | Thomas Papenbrock, George F. Bertsch |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9801044 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9801044 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4141 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 4141-4144 |
Abstract
We present the first fully quantum mechanical calculation of photon radiation accompanying charged particle decay from a barrier resonance. The soft-photon limit agrees with the classical results, but differences appear at next-to-leading-order. Under the conditions of alpha-decay of heavy nuclei, the main contribution to the photon emission stems from Coulomb acceleration and may be computed analytically. We find only a small contribution from the tunneling wave function under the barrier.
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