New Geiger-Nuttall law for two-proton radioactivity

In the present work, a two-parameter empirical formula is proposed, based on the Geiger-Nuttall law, to study two-proton (2p) radioactivity. Using this formula, the calculated 2p radioactivity half-lives are in good agreement with the experimental data as well as with calculated results obtained by Goncalves et al. [Phys. Lett. B 774, 14 (2017)] using the effective liquid drop model (ELDM), Sreeja et al. [Eur. Phys. J. A 55, 33 (2019)] using a four-parameter empirical formula, and Cui et al. [Phys. Rev. C 101: 014301 (2020)] using a generalized liquid drop model (GLDM). In addition, this two-parameter empirical formula is extended to predict the half-lives of 22 possible 2p radioactivity candidates with 2p radioactivity released energy Q(2p) > 0, obtained from the latest evaluated atomic mass table AME2016. The predicted results are highly consistent with those obtained using other theoretical models such as the ELDM, GLDM and four-parameter empirical formula.

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In this study, a new two-parameter empirical formula based on the Geiger-Nuttall law is proposed to study two-proton radioactivity. The calculated results are in good agreement with experimental data and results obtained using other theoretical models, demonstrating the effectiveness of the formula in predicting half-lives of 2p radioactivity candidates.