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27 de novembro de 2019
16h30
Sala F-149

Salomon S Mizrahi
DF-UFSCar

The delimiting/frontier lines of the constituents of matter

Looking at the chart of nuclides displayed at the URL of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) [1] that contains all the known nuclides, the natural and those produced artificially in
labs, one verifies the existence of two, not quite regular, delimiting lines between which dwell all
the nuclides constituting matter. These lines are established by the highly unstable radionuclides
located the most far away from those in the central locus, the valley of stability. Here, making use of
the "old" semi-empirical mass formula for stable nuclides together with the energy-time
relation of quantum mechanics, by a simple calculation we show that the obtained frontier lines,
for proton and neutron excesses, present an appreciable agreement with the delimiting lines. For
the sake of presenting a somewhat comprehensive panorama of the matter in our Universe and their
relation with the frontier lines, we narrate, in brief, what is currently known about the astrophysical
nucleogenesis processes.