Electron-capture decay rate of encapsulated in a fullerene cage

T Ohtsuki, R Kuwahara, K Ohno - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The decay rate of Be 7 electron capture in C 70 and Be metal was measured employing a
reference method. The half-life (T 1/2) of Be 7 endohedral C 70 (Be 7@ C 70) was found to …

Modifying the electron capture decay rate of by using small fullerenes

Z Li, T Yang - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Electron capture (EC) decay of a Be 7 atom, the rate of which is affected by the electron
density at the Be 7 nucleus, forms a Li 7 atom and emits a neutrino. Herein, we studied the …

Electron capture nuclear decay rate under compression in a confined environment

A Ray, P Das, AK Sikdar, S Pathak, N Aquino… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
We have calculated the effect of compressing the radioactive atoms in the crystal lattice
environments on their electron capture nuclear decay rates. The electronic structure …

Change in 7Be half-life in host media

F Gholamian, MM Firoozabadi, R Sarhaddi - Chinese Physics C, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
First-principle calculations within the density functional theory framework are used to study
the probability of electron capture for the 7 Be nucleus. For this purpose, electron density at …

Effects of electric fields on 7Be half-life

F Gholamian, MM Firoozabadi, R Sarhaddi - Chinese Physics C, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
First-principle calculations based on the density functional theory (DFT) method are adopted
to investigate the influence of a strong electric field on the 7 Be half-life. Accordingly …

[PDF][PDF] Does the α-decay rate change under lattice compression?

AK Sikdar, J Nandi, J Patel, D Pandit, J Datta… - Proceedings of the DAE …, 2022 - sympnp.org
The radioactive decay rates are generally known to be independent of any change in the
external environments such as the change in temperature or pressure. Among the various …

Cryogenic Design and Thermal Analysis of the Curie CryoTrap

R Osborn - 2022 - search.proquest.com
The decay rates of electron capture (EC) radioisotopes, such as 7 Be, are demonstratively
susceptible to alteration with change to the electron orbital structure. The Cryogenic Ultra …

Enhancement in energy resolution of silicon surface barrier detector at low temperature

J Nandi, AK Sikdar, D Pandit, P Das, A Ray - 2022 - indianjournals.com
Silicon Surface Barrier detector has been used to study the invariance of alpha decay rate
under lattice compression using unstable Astatine ions implanted in different catcher foils …

[PDF][PDF] Precision measurement of the change of the half-life of Sn by confinement in the large and small lattices

A Ray, P Das, AK Sikdar - 2021 - cds.cern.ch
We propose to determine conclusively with a high confidence level whether the electron-
capturing nuclear decay rate of 110Sn increases by a measurable percentage (≈ 0.2%) …

[PDF][PDF] Precision measurement of the half-life of^{110} Sn in large and small lattice environments

A Ray, P Das, AK Sikdar - 2020 - cds.cern.ch
We propose to undertake high-precision measurements of the half-life of electron-capturing
nuclear decay rate of 110Sn under compression by implanting the ions in a small lattice …