@Article{Morales_etal2014,
author="Morales, A. I.
and Algora, A.
and Molina, F.
and Rubio, B.",
title="Half-Life Systematics across the N=126 Shell Closure: Role of First-Forbidden Transitions in the beta Decay of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei",
journal="Physical Review Letters",
year="2014",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="113",
number="2",
pages="022702--5pp",
abstract="This Letter reports on a systematic study of beta-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei around doubly magic Pb-208. The lifetimes of the 126-neutron shell isotone Pt-204 and the neighboring Ir200-202, Pt-203, Au-204 are presented together with other 19 half-lives measured during the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}stopped beam{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} campaign of the rare isotope investigations at GSI collaboration. The results constrain the main nuclear theories used in calculations of r-process nucleosynthesis. Predictions based on a statistical macroscopic description of the first-forbidden beta strength reveal significant deviations for most of the nuclei with N < 126. In contrast, theories including a fully microscopic treatment of allowed and first-forbidden transitions reproduce more satisfactorily the trend in the measured half-lives for the nuclei in this region, where the r-process pathway passes through during beta decay back to stability.",
optnote="WOS:000341315100007",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1913), last updated on Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:18:55 +0000",
issn="0031-9007",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022702",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.022702",
language="English"
}