PHYSICA SCRIPTA, cilt.98, sa.8, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
This study re-examines the effect of nuclear deformation on the calculated Gamow-Teller (GT) strength distributions of neutron-deficient (Hg178-192, Pb185-194 and Po196-206) nuclei. The nuclear ground state properties and shape parameters were calculated using the Relativistic Mean Field model. Three different density-dependent interactions ((DC)-C-3, DD-ME2 and DD-PC1) were used in the calculation. Estimated shape parameters were later used within the framework of deformed proton-neutron quasi-random phase approximations model, with a separable interaction, to calculate the GT strength distributions, half-lives and branching ratios for these neutron-deficient isotopes. It was concluded that half-lives and GT strength distributions vary considerably with change in shape parameter.