The spontaneous transformation of one radioactive nuclide into a daughter nuclide, which may be radioactive or may not, with the emission of one or more particles or photons. The decay of N0 nuclides to give N nuclides after time t is given by N=N0exp(−γt), where γ is called the decay constant or the disintegration constant. The reciprocal of the decay constant is the mean life. The time required for half the original nuclides to decay (i.e. N=½N0) is called the half-life of the nuclide. The same terms are applied to elementary particles that spontaneously transform into other particles. For example, a free neutron decays into a proton and an electron (see beta decay). See also alpha particle; Q-value.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/radionuclide-half-life-measurements Values of radionuclide half-lives at the NIST website