Ab Initio Thermodynamics Calculation of Beta Decay Rates |
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| Authors: | Michael C. Parker Christopher Jeynes |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Computer Sciences and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ UK;2. Independent scholar, Tredegar, Wales, NP22 4LP UK |
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| Abstract: | Beta-decay half-lives for the free neutron, for 6He and 8He, and for 8Li are calculated ab initio from geometrical thermodynamics arguments, independently of any quantum mechanics. Half-lives for the decay of 8Be to two alphas and for the disintegration of the tetraneutron are also calculated. The calculated values are close to those experimentally observed. |
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| Keywords: | halo isotopes of helium quantitative geometrical thermodynamics scale invariance tropons |
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