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Radioactive decay as a forced nuclear chemical process: Phenomenology

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Concepts regarding the mechanism of radioactive decay of nuclei are developed on the basis of a hypothesis that there is a dynamic relationship between the electronic and nuclear subsystems of an atom, and that fluctuating initiating effects of the electronic subsystem on a nucleus are possible. Such relationship is reflected in experimental findings that show the radioactive decay of nuclei might be determined by a positive difference between the mass of an initial nucleus and the mass of an atom’s electronic subsystem, i.e., the mass of the entire atom (rather than that of its nucleus) and the total mass of the decay products. It is established that an intermediate nucleus whose charge is lower by unity than the charge of the initial radioactive nucleus is formed as a result of the above fluctuating stimuli that initiate radioactive decay, and its nuclear matter is thus in an unbalanced metastable state of inner shakeup, affecting the quark subsystem of nucleons. The intermediate nucleus thus experiences radioactive decay with the emission of α or β particles. At the same time, the high energy (with respect to the chemical scale) of electrons in plasma served as a factor initiating the processes in different nuclear chemical transformations and radioactive decays in low-temperature plasma studied earlier, particularly during the laser ablation of metals in aqueous solutions of different compositions and in near-surface cathode layers upon glow discharge. It is shown that a wide variety of nucleosynthesis processes in the Universe can be understood on the same basis, and a great many questions regarding the formation of light elements in the solar atmosphere and some heavy elements (particularly p-nuclei) in the interiors of massive stars at late stages of their evolution can also be resolved.

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  1. Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, 103064, Russia

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  2. Institute of the Problems of Laser and Information Technologies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, 142190, Russia

    S. F. Timashev

  3. National Nuclear Research University, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, 115409, Russia

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Original Russian Text © S.F. Timashev, 2015, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2015, Vol. 89, No. 11, pp. 1810–1822.

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Timashev, S.F. Radioactive decay as a forced nuclear chemical process: Phenomenology. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 89, 2072–2083 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024415110199

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