A new assessment of the alleged link between element 115 and element 117 decay chains

Summary, in English

A novel rigorous statistical treatment is applied to available data (May 9, 2016) from search and spectroscopy experiments on the elements with atomic numbers Z = 115 and Z = 117 . The present analysis implies that the hitherto proposed cross-reaction link between α-decay chains associated with the isotopes 293-117 and 289-115 is highly improbable.

• Author: U. Forsberg; D. Rudolph; C. Fahlander; P. Golubev; L.G. Sarmiento; S. Åberg; M. Block; Ch.E. Düllmann; F.P. Heßberger; J.V. Kratz; A. Yakushev
• Department/s: Nuclear physics; Mathematical Physics
• Publishing year: 2016-09-10
• Language: English
• Pages: 293-296
• Publication/Series: Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
• Volume: 760
• Full text: - 225 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316303495; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.07.008
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: Superheavy elements; correlation analysis
• Status: Published
• Project: Characterization of New Superheavy Elements; Nuclear Structure at the Limits: Isotope-selective Spectroscopy
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0370-2693