Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products
We calculate the rates of β− decay of highly ionized long-lived and medium-lived fission products (LLFPs, MLFPs). These elements, produced as residues of nuclear fission in reactors, exhibit high radioactivity and prolonged half-lives, making them hazardous to the environment. To address this issue...
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| author | Gupta Arkabrata Biswas Tripti Lahiri Chirashree Sarkar S. |
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| description | We calculate the rates of β− decay of highly ionized long-lived and medium-lived fission products (LLFPs, MLFPs). These elements, produced as residues of nuclear fission in reactors, exhibit high radioactivity and prolonged half-lives, making them hazardous to the environment. To address this issue of nuclear waste management, we theoretically investigate the effects of β− decay in highly ionized atoms. In the context of bare and highly ionized atoms, the presence of available phase space facilitates the generation of an electron within an unoccupied atomic orbital, a new channel of β− decay i.e., the decay to the atomic bound state, opens along with the usual continuum state decay. As a result, the total β− decay rate increases, significantly reducing the half-lives of the atoms, when they are made highly ionized or bare. In this work, we have calculated the total β− decay half-lives in the case of highly ionized LLFPs (79Se, 93Zr, 99Tc) and MLFPs (137Cs, 151Sm, 121Sn, 147Pm, 125Sb, 155Eu, 113Cd), taking the contribution of both, the decay from continuum and bound states. Our calculations show that there will be a noticeable reduction in the half-life of the considered nuclei for highly ionized atomic configurations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-816c996b927e4c5ca57f5efca18f4d0b2025-08-20T02:26:10ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2025-01-013250100310.1051/epjconf/202532501003epjconf_iemphys2025_01003Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission productsGupta Arkabrata0Biswas Tripti1Lahiri Chirashree2Sarkar S.3Department of Basic Science and Humanities, Institute of Engineering and Management, University of Engineering and ManagementDepartment of Physics, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New BarrackporeDepartment of Physics, Surendranath Evening CollegeDepartment of Physics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and TechnologyWe calculate the rates of β− decay of highly ionized long-lived and medium-lived fission products (LLFPs, MLFPs). These elements, produced as residues of nuclear fission in reactors, exhibit high radioactivity and prolonged half-lives, making them hazardous to the environment. To address this issue of nuclear waste management, we theoretically investigate the effects of β− decay in highly ionized atoms. In the context of bare and highly ionized atoms, the presence of available phase space facilitates the generation of an electron within an unoccupied atomic orbital, a new channel of β− decay i.e., the decay to the atomic bound state, opens along with the usual continuum state decay. As a result, the total β− decay rate increases, significantly reducing the half-lives of the atoms, when they are made highly ionized or bare. In this work, we have calculated the total β− decay half-lives in the case of highly ionized LLFPs (79Se, 93Zr, 99Tc) and MLFPs (137Cs, 151Sm, 121Sn, 147Pm, 125Sb, 155Eu, 113Cd), taking the contribution of both, the decay from continuum and bound states. Our calculations show that there will be a noticeable reduction in the half-life of the considered nuclei for highly ionized atomic configurations.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2025/10/epjconf_iemphys2025_01003.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Gupta Arkabrata Biswas Tripti Lahiri Chirashree Sarkar S. Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products EPJ Web of Conferences |
| title | Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products |
| title_full | Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products |
| title_fullStr | Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products |
| title_short | Reduction in β− decay half-lives of highly ionized fission products |
| title_sort | reduction in β decay half lives of highly ionized fission products |
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