{
  "id": "nucl-th/9801044",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-01-21T20:21:45.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-01-21T20:21:45.000Z",
  "title": "Bremsstrahlung in Alpha-Decay",
  "authors": [
    "Thomas Papenbrock",
    "George F. Bertsch"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 2 Postscript figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 4141-4144",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4141",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present the first fully quantum mechanical calculation of photon radiation accompanying charged particle decay from a barrier resonance. The soft-photon limit agrees with the classical results, but differences appear at next-to-leading-order. Under the conditions of alpha-decay of heavy nuclei, the main contribution to the photon emission stems from Coulomb acceleration and may be computed analytically. We find only a small contribution from the tunneling wave function under the barrier.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-01-21T20:21:45.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "alpha-decay",
      "bremsstrahlung",
      "first fully quantum mechanical calculation",
      "soft-photon limit agrees",
      "photon emission stems"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 466471
    }
  }
}