Two proton decay in ¹²O

Two-proton radioactivity was observed experimentally in the decay of ⁴⁵Fe, ⁵⁴Zn and ⁴⁸Ni. From then many theoretical studies of one and two-proton radioactivity have been carried out within the framework of different models including RMF+BCS approach for medium mass region. Towards light mass region proton-proton correlations were observed in two-proton decay of ¹⁹Mg and ¹⁶Ne. Recently, different mechanism of two-proton emission from proton-rich nuclei ²³Al and ²²Mg has been investigated and transition from direct to sequential two-proton decay in sd shell nuclei is observed. Encouraged with these recent studies of two proton emission in light mass nuclei, we have applied our RMF+BCS approach for the study of two proton emission in light mass region and in this paper we present our result of two proton emission in ¹²O