Abstract
A half-life of 2.2 ± 0.2 s has been deduced for the ground-state decay of , more than shorter than the previously adopted value. is an even-even nucleus lying on the proton dripline, created during explosive hydrogen burning in type I x-ray bursts in the rapid proton capture () process. The effect of the measured half-life on -process reaction flow is explored. Implications on theoretical treatments of nuclear deformation in are also discussed.
1 More- Received 3 October 2008
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.015803
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