Timeline for Does the population of higher level s-shells affect the decay rate of alpha emitters?
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| Aug 4, 2016 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Eric Walker | ||
| Nov 12, 2015 at 23:02 | history | edited | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | rob♦ | … which is why I used the actual wavefunctions evaluated at $r=0$ | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | Eric Walker | What struck me about the figure was that the nuclear volume and the barrier are a speck at the origin, and that for s-waves at all n there is a local maximum at the origin that overwhelms the nucleus and the barrier. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | rob♦ | It doesn't. Because of the shell theorem what matters is the electron density near the nucleus; the large-$n$ electrons spend more of their time far from the nucleus. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 5:05 | comment | added | Eric Walker | Does Figure 3-8 of this discussion alter your assumptions about the radial distribution of the s-orbits for $n>1$? chemistry.mcmaster.ca/esam/Chapter_3/section_2.html | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 1:38 | comment | added | rob♦ | @EricWalker An excellent point which I was editing in as you commented; it changes the answer quite a bit. | |
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| Oct 23, 2015 at 1:24 | comment | added | Eric Walker | Why did you drop the discussion of the barrier width, which seems more pertinent to the question? | |
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| Oct 22, 2015 at 23:40 | history | answered | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |