Alpha Decay (cont.) and Quantum Theory of Radioactive Decay (online class)

8 maio 2020, 11:00 • Elmar Biernat

Alpha Decay

• Quantum mechanics recap: conservation of probability, probability flux
• Tunneling of alpha through rectangular barrier, transmissivity
• Gamow-Gurney-Condon-Theory: Tunneling of alpha through Coulomb barrier, Gamow factor, recover Geiger-Nuttall law, compare with data
  
• decays into other light nuclei

(Literature: Chapter 8 in Introductory Nuclear Physics. K. S. Krane, Wiley 1987)

Quantum Theory of Radioactive Decay

• Imaginary part in potential
  
• Quantum mechanics recap: stationary states