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Alpha Decay Quantum Tunneling — 2D WKB Barrier Profile

2D Gamow-theory simulator: watch the WKB tunneling exponent build up across an alpha particle's Coulomb barrier in a live radial profile plot. Pick a real isotope or tune mass number, atomic number and decay energy, and see the exact closed-form Gamow integral turn into a computed half-life.

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This 2D companion to the 3D Gamow-theory simulator drops the camera fly-through and plots the underlying mathematics directly: the Coulomb barrier V(r), the alpha particle's fixed decay energy Q, and the cumulative WKB tunneling exponent building up across the classically-forbidden zone. A travelling marker crosses the barrier using genuine energy-conserving dynamics outside it and a κ(r)-throttled crawl inside it, then escapes or reflects at the turning point according to the real transmission probability. Two independently-coded integration methods for the Gamow exponent — a live pointwise trapezoid integral and an exact closed-form solution — are cross-checked against each other on every recompute, so the half-life you see is verified two different ways, not just asserted.

⚙ Under the hood

2D Gamow-theory simulator: watch the WKB tunneling exponent build up across an alpha particle's Coulomb barrier in a live radial profile plot. Pick a real isotope or tune mass number, atomic number and decay energy, and see the exact closed-form Gamow integral turn into a computed half-life, cross-checked live against an independent numeric integration.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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