α Decay of ¹⁰⁹I and Its Implications for the Proton Decay of ¹⁰⁵Sb and the Astrophysical Rapid Proton-Capture Process

C. Mazzocchi^1,2, R. Grzywacz^1,3, S. N. Liddick⁴, K. P. Rykaczewski³, H. Schatz⁵, J. C. Batchelder⁴, C. R. Bingham^1,3, C. J. Gross³, J. H. Hamilton⁶, J. K. Hwang⁶, S. Ilyushkin⁷, A. Korgul^1,6,8,9, W. Królas^9,10, K. Li⁶, R. D. Page¹¹, D. Simpson^1,12, and J. A. Winger^4,7,9
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
²IFGA, University of Milan and INFN, Milano, I-20133, Italy
³Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
⁴UNIRIB, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
⁵National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
⁶Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
⁷Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Mississippi 39762, USA
⁸Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, Warszawa, PL 00-681, Poland
⁹Joint Institute for Heavy-Ion Reactions, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
¹⁰Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL 31-342 Kraków, Poland
¹¹Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
¹²Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA