Systematic Study of the Shell Effect on α Decay within Two-potential Approach

In the present work, the α decay half-lives are systematically studied within the two-potentialapproach for even-even nuclei, odd-A nuclei and odd-odd nuclei. To describe the deviations between experimental half-lives and calculated results due to the nuclear shell structure, α preformation factor and hindrance factor related with α cluster preformation probability are introduced. It is consistent with our previous worksX. D. Sun et al., Phys. Rev. C 93, 034316 (2016); X. D. Sun et al., Phys. Rev. C 95, 014319 (2017); X. D. Sun et al., Phys. Rev. C 95, 044303 (2017). Considering the shell effect on the preformation of α and by analyzing the experimental data of the α decay half-lives, the parameters of the α preformation factor/hindrance factor correction formula are obtained. we confirm that the shell effect and the proton-neutron correlation play key roles in the α preformation where the preformation probability near the shell is less than the preformation probability far from the shell.