Ismail, M., S. G. Abd-Elnasser, A. Adel, I. A. M. Abdul-Magead, and H. M. Elsharkawy, "Systematic investigation of $\ensuremath{\alpha}$- and cluster-decay modes in superheavy nuclei", Physical Review C, vol. 109, issue 1: American Physical Society, pp. 014606 - , 2024/01/08/, 2023. AbstractWebsite

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Ismail, M., A. Y. Ellithi, A. Adel, and M. A. ABBAS, "An improved unified formula for $$\alpha $$-decay and cluster radioactivity of heavy and superheavy nuclei", European Physical Journal A, vol. 58, issue 11, pp. 225, 2022. AbstractWebsite

Improved NRDX empirical formula for $$\alpha $$- and cluster decay half-lives is modified by adding the effects of angular momentum, isospin asymmetry and parity. The coefficients are determined using the latest experimental data for $$\alpha $$-decay half-lives of 573 nuclei and the available 22 cluster decay half-lives. The modified formulas produced the $$\alpha $$- and cluster decay half-lives and agree with calculations of other similar formulas. We used the new formulas to calculate the half-lives of cluster emissions of the SHN with $$Z=120$$, 122, 124, and 126, which have not yet been experimentally synthesized.

Ismail, M., A. Y. Ellithi, A. Adel, and M. A. ABBAS, "Improved empirical formulas for α-decay half-lives of heavy and superheavy nuclei", Physica Scripta, vol. 97, issue 7: IOP Publishing, pp. 075303, 2022. AbstractWebsite

The empirical Royer formulas were readjusted with new set of coefficients using the latest experimental data and the recent evaluated -decay half-lives over a wide range of 573 nuclei between 52 Z 118. The effects of the orbital angular momentum, isospin asymmetry, and parity have been examined in improving the adopted formulas. The modified formulas were tested for their accuracy by comparing with the recent experimental data and other theoretical calculations. The prediction of -decay half-lives of several isotopes of the superheavy nuclei with which have not yet been experimentally synthesized, are presented and compared with other theoretical approaches. The behavior of in relation to the neutron number variation is explored for about 40 isotopes of each element. Based on the minima found in variation with neutron number, we found neutron stability at 190, 196, 200, 202, 204, 210, 216, 218, 220 and 228. The behavior of with neutron variation for heavy and superheavy nuclei is almost the same as that found using more heavy and complicated calculations. The present method can be applied easily to study large number of nuclei.

Ismail, M., and A. Adel, "Cluster radioactivity around shell closures: correlation of half-lives with the energy levels of daughter nuclei", Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 49, issue 7: IOP Publishing, pp. 075102, 2022. AbstractWebsite

The emission of Be, C, O, and Ne clusters from seven parent nuclei with neutron numbers around the neutron magicities N = 82 and 126 are considered. The universal decay law (UDL) formula, as well as the double-folding model derived from the Michigan three-range Yukawa–Paris NN interaction with zero- and finite-range exchange components, are utilized to compute the half-life time for 23 cluster decay processes. The calculations utilizing the UDL formula show satisfactory agreement with the experimental data. The reliable UDL formula is used to calculate log T c for more than 1500 cluster emitters and its variation with the neutron number, N d, of the daughter nuclei is presented. The behavior of log T c with neutron number variation is studied and correlated to the energy levels of the daughter nuclei. For a neutron number N d larger than the neutron magic number, log T c increases almost linearly with increasing N d, leaving the daughter nuclei in most cases with the same nuclear spin value. This linear behavior of log T c results from equal nuclear spin values of the daughter nuclei. At the magic neutron number, the nuclear spin changes strongly and as a result log T c increases as N d decreases. Log T c reaches to a maximum value when all the neutrons in the cluster are emitted from levels below the neutron gap. Leaving the daughter nuclei in the same spin produces almost linear variation of log T c. For protons in various clusters emitted from the same level or the same group of levels, log T c has almost the same value and the same behavior of variation with N d. Also, the values of log T c for specific types of cluster depend on the N to Z ratio for different isotopes of this cluster. From the available nuclear spin values, the neutron energy levels around the magic numbers are presented.

Ismail, M., W. M. Seif, and W. M. Tawfik, "Correlation between the behavior of α-decay half-lives and the energy levels of parent nuclei as supply of α nucleons", Indian Journal of Physics, vol. 96, issue 3, pp. 875 - 884, 2022, 2021. AbstractWebsite

We systematically investigated the behavior of the α-decay half-lives (Tα) for 20 isotopic chains of even–even nuclei, from 78Pt to 116Lv. Tα is calculated within the preformed cluster model. The α-core potential is determined by the double-folding model based on the M3Y-Reid nucleon–nucleon interaction. The Coulomb potential is also microscopically calculated by the folding procedure. To confirm our results, we used four different parameterizations of the involved proton and neutron densities, which are consistent with extensive microscopic calculations and electron scattering data. The results correlate the logTα behavior for the isotopes of an element with their proton energy levels. We found a clear similarity in the behavior of logTα with the number of neutrons of the daughter nuclei (Nd) for specific isotopic chains. The proton pairs forming the α-particles that emitted from the isotopes of the similar chains belong to the same proton energy level. We pointed out some neutron magic and semi-magic numbers corresponding to characteristic minima in the logTα variation with Nd. We interpreted these magic (semi-magic) numbers as the total number of neutrons filling the upper neutron level in the parent nucleus.

Ismail, M., A. Y. Ellithi, A. Khaled, and H. Anwer, "New results on nuclear magicity and possible extension of the nuclear landscape", International Journal of Modern Physics EInternational Journal of Modern Physics E, vol. 30, issue 05: World Scientific Publishing Co., pp. 2150038, 2021. AbstractWebsite

In nuclear theory, there is always a quest for possible extensions of the nuclear landscape and extending our knowledge to the limits of nuclear existence. In this study, we examine the stability and structural properties of a wide range of nuclei in super- and ultra-heavy region in a phenomenological semi-microscopic approach. we calculated the shell correlation energy, residual pairing correction energy, two-nucleon separation energy and two-nucleon energy gap for 3670 even?even nuclei along ?-stability line and two-neutron driplines in the ranges 70 ≤ Z ≤ 274 with 80 ≤ N ≤ 548 and 70 ≤ Z ≤ 212 with 126 ≤ N ≤ 548, respectively. To assure reliability and confidence of the new results in the ultra-heavy region, we extended the search space to include heavy and super-heavy nuclei. We report 83 double magic nuclei and address the predominance of proton and neutron magic numbers. Our calculations reproduced known results on nuclear magicity and present strong evidences on islands of stability and magic numbers in super- and ultra-heavy regions. We also address shifts in nuclear magicity along the nuclear landscape close to the ?-stability line and close to the neutron rich regions.In nuclear theory, there is always a quest for possible extensions of the nuclear landscape and extending our knowledge to the limits of nuclear existence. In this study, we examine the stability and structural properties of a wide range of nuclei in super- and ultra-heavy region in a phenomenological semi-microscopic approach. we calculated the shell correlation energy, residual pairing correction energy, two-nucleon separation energy and two-nucleon energy gap for 3670 even?even nuclei along ?-stability line and two-neutron driplines in the ranges 70 ≤ Z ≤ 274 with 80 ≤ N ≤ 548 and 70 ≤ Z ≤ 212 with 126 ≤ N ≤ 548, respectively. To assure reliability and confidence of the new results in the ultra-heavy region, we extended the search space to include heavy and super-heavy nuclei. We report 83 double magic nuclei and address the predominance of proton and neutron magic numbers. Our calculations reproduced known results on nuclear magicity and present strong evidences on islands of stability and magic numbers in super- and ultra-heavy regions. We also address shifts in nuclear magicity along the nuclear landscape close to the ?-stability line and close to the neutron rich regions.

Ismail, M., A. Y. Ellithi, M. M. Selim, N. Abou-Samra, and O. A. Mohamedien, "Semi-analytic calculations of barrier penetration and alpha particle preformation probabilities", Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 47, issue 5, 2020. AbstractWebsite
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Ismail, M., A. Y. Ellithi, M. M. Selim, N. Abou-Samra, and O. A. Mohamedien, "Cluster decay half-lives and preformation probabilities", Physica Scripta, vol. 95, issue 7, 2020. AbstractWebsite
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Ismail, M., A. Abdurrahman, and A. R. Abdulghany, "Correlation Between the Behavior of $${\alpha}$$-Decay Half-Life Time and $$\boldsymbol{Q}$$Values with Neutron Number Variation of Daughter Nuclei", Physics of Atomic Nuclei, vol. 83, issue 5, pp. 691 - 699, 2020. AbstractWebsite

$$\alpha$$decay of 2000 parent heavy and superheavy nuclei, with atomic numbers in the range $$Z=80$$to $$Z=122$$, is considered. We calculated the half-life time, $$T_{\alpha}$$, of each nucleus using the density-dependent cluster model with M3Y-effective nucleon–nucleon interaction. The $$Q_{\alpha}$$values needed for calculation of $$T_{\alpha}$$were extracted from four different mass tables used frequently in $$\alpha$$-decay calculation. These tables are WS4, WS3, FRDM(2012), and DZ tables. The present study shows to what extent the behavior and value of $$T_{\alpha}$$, as the nucleon number varies, depends on choosing the mass table used to extract $$Q_{\alpha}$$values. For this purpose, we studied the variation of log $$T_{\alpha}$$and the corresponding $$1/Q_{\alpha}$$with the neutron number of the daughter nucleus, $$N_{d}$$, using the four different mass tables. The results show that the log $$T_{\alpha}$$variation follows the corresponding $$1/Q_{\alpha}$$variation. The two mass tables WS3 and WS4 predict almost the same log $$T_{\alpha}$$variation and agree in the magic and semi-magic numbers. For FRDM(2012) and DZ tables the variation of log $$T_{\alpha}$$with $$N_{d}$$follows the same $$1/Q_{\alpha}$$variation but the magic numbers deduced from these two tables do not agree with each other and almost differ from those predicted from WS3 and WS4. FRDM(2012) tables predict the main deep minimum at $$N_{d}=128$$instead of the magic neutron number $$N_{d}=126$$.

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