Fission Approach to Heavy Particle Radioactivities

Heavy particle radioactivity predicted in 1980 was experimentally confirmed since 1984. The obtained until now data on half-lives and branching ratios relative to α-decay of ¹⁴C, ^18,20O, ²³F, ^{22, 24-26}Ne, ^28,30Mg and ^32,34Si; radioactivities are in good agreement with predicted values within the analytical superasymmetric fission (ASAF) model. The strong shell effect may be further exploited to search for new cluster emitters.