ABSTRACT
The binding energy of an atomic nucleus is composed of a number of different forms of energy. The most important ones are the nuclear interaction energy and the Coulomb energy due to the Coulomb repulsion between the protons. The recently proposed modified Coulomb potential model has been used to calculate the most stable nuclei for a fixed mass number, for a few nuclei (rather isobars) with Z > 92. Calculations from this study show that the modified Coulomb potential model generates the most stable nuclei (ZSTABLE) for the isobars when n > 21. As the values of n increase, some occurrence of nuclear transformations that include beta decay and gamma decay, which the isobars undergo in order to gain stability are revealed. However, some unknown kind of radiations that require further investigations are predicted to be emitted when the value of n increases consecutively at the initial stages of nuclear decay.
