Reply to comment on ‘Alpha decay of thermally excited nuclei’

Abstract

Abstract A recent Comment by P Mohr has discussed our results for 212Po within the statistical approach, presented in our paper. Following the comment, we have recalculated the 212Po half-lives at elevated temperatures and confirm that there is indeed a decrease in the half-lives with increasing ambient temperatures, however, it is not as large as we reported for this approach. The overestimate was due to a numerical error in one of the calculations. In this reply we provide further discussions, and a new table has been provided here and in a corrigendum.