Abstract
By modeling the transition paths of the nuclear γ-decay cascade using a scale-free random network, we uncover a universal power-law distribution of γ-ray intensity ρI(I)I-2, with I the γ-ray intensity of each transition. This property is consistently observed for all datasets with a sufficient number of γ-ray intensity entries in the National Nuclear Data Center database, regardless of the reaction type or nuclei involved. In addition, we perform numerical simulations that support the model's predictions of level population density.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 102502 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 12 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 19K14680, a grant from the Joint Research by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) (NINS program no. 01111905), and partly by the Max-Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. J. C. B is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We thank José Crespo López-Urrutia, Wenjia Huang, and Hans Arwed Weidenmüller, for their useful discussions.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | 19K14680 |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | |
| National Institutes of Natural Sciences | 01111905 |
| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| National Institutes of Natural Sciences |