Role of nuclear deformations and proximity interactions in heavy particle radioactivity Gudveen Sawhney, Kirandeep Sandhu, Manoj K. Sharma and Raj K. Gupta Eur. Phys. J. A, 50 11 (2014) 175 Published online: 27 November 2014 DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2014-14175-9