TY - JOUR A1 - Poenaru, Dorin N. A1 - Greiner, Walter A1 - Ivaşcu, Marin A1 - Săndulescu, Aurel T1 - Heavy cluster decay of trans-zirconium "stable" nuclides T2 - Physical review C N2 - By using the analytical superasymmetric fission model it is shown that all ‘‘stable’’ nuclei lighter than lead with Z>40 are metastable relative to the spontaneous emission of nuclear clusters. An even-odd effect is included in the zero point vibration energy. Half-lives in the range 1040–1050 s are obtained for Z>62. The region of metastability against these new decay modes is extended beyond that for α decay and in some cases, in the competing region, the emission rates for nuclear clusters are larger than for α decay. Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2464 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-29381 UR - http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v32/p2198 VL - 32 SP - 2198 EP - 2200 ER -