Fine Structure in Cluster Radioactivity

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Experimental evidence

  • The SOLENO spectrometer

    • Cluster decay of²²³Ra parent

    • Cluster decays of^222,224 Ra parents

  • Planned experiments on fine structure in cluster radioactivity

• The theory

  • The excitation model

  • Simple interpretations based on structure models

  • Q-value modifications in preformated cluster model (PCM) approaches

  • Q-value modifications in unified fission models (UFM)

  • R-matrix approach

  • Landau-Zener promotion mechanism

• Summary and outlook

• Acknowledgments

• References