Same as Fig. 2,but depicting the variations of the extracted α-particle preformation factors (left) and two-neutron separation energy gap (right) against the neutron number for Cf, Fm and No isotopes. (IMAGE)

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Same as Fig. 2,but depicting the variations of the extracted α-particle preformation factors (left) and two-neutron separation energy gap (right) against the neutron number for Cf, Fm and No isotopes.

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Similarly, research has also found magic changes in nuclei near N=152. More importantly, the lifetimes of these nuclei are relatively longer. The result provides more proof for determining that N=152 is a neutron sub-magic number.

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Xiao-Hua Li

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