The half-life of ${}^{212}$Po

Abstract

The half-life of ${}^{212}$Po was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as $T_{1/2}=295.1(4)$ ns by using thorium-loaded liquid scintillator.

28 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables

References in corpus (3)

• Investigation of rare nuclear decays with BaF${}_2$ crystal scintillator contaminated by radium
• Half-life measurements of ${}^{212}$Po with thorium-loaded liquid scintillator
• TAU-4 installation intended for long-term monitoring of a half-life value of the ${}^{212}$Po