α-decay half lives of ²⁹⁴118 nucleus

A systematic study of α-decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei has been carried out. The half-lives obtained by using these Q values and sensitive dependence of the half-lives on L values however, brings the half-lives closer to the experimental values. The plots for log₁₀(T_1/2) against the neutron number of the daughter in the corresponding decay reveals that, for most of the decays, the half life is minimum for the decay leading to a daughter with N = 184. The predictions on the α-decay half lives of Z = 118 may be of great use for further experimental investigation in the super heavy region