New Phase Space Calculations for β-Decay Half-Lives

Table 1

Calculated phase space of -decay (BP) compared with previous calculations. The value of maximum -decay energy is taken from [15] for pure Fermi transitions. The last two columns show our calculated results.

Nucleus	[15] (MeV)	[16]	[15]	[TW]	[3]
^10C	0.8884	2.361	2.361	2.325	2.326
^14O	1.8098	43.398	43.378	42.822	42.814
^18Ne	2.383	136.83	136.83	135.19	135.08
^22Mg	3.109	427.02	426.88	422.19	421.51
^26Al	3.211	483.84	483.68	478.3	477.43
^26Si	3.817	1036.8	1035.9	1025.51	1023.059
^30S	4.439	1990.2	1987.8	1969.24	1963.9
^34Cl	4.468	2014.7	2013.4	1993.13	1987.4
^34Ar	5.021	3388.3	3383.8	3351.58	3339.85
^38K	5.028	3346.9	3344.9	3312.82	3300.54
^38Ca	5.620	5515.9	5510.3	5457.95	5449
^42Sc	5.409	4533.5	4531.7	4490.19	4462.21
^42Ti	5.964	7025.4	7024.1	6934.9	6853.74
^46V	6.032	7285.9	7284.2	7186.04	7091.9
^50Mn	6.609	10818	10810	10492.76	10262
^54Co	7.227	15956	15951	14988.470	14412.5