Manifestation of deformation and nonlocality in $\alpha$ and cluster decay

D. F. Rojas-Gamboa, J. E. Perez Velasquez, N. G. Kelkar +1

It is common to study the strong decay of a heavy nucleus as a tunneling phenomenon where the $\alpha$ (${}^4$He) or a light nuclear cluster tunnels through the Coulomb barrier formed by…