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Claes Fahlander

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48Ca+249Bk Fusion Reaction Leading to Element Z=117: Long-Lived α-Decaying 270Db and Discovery of 266Lr

Author

  • J. Khuyagbaatar
  • A. Yakushev
  • Ch. E. Düllmann
  • D. Ackermann
  • L.-L. Andersson
  • M. Asai
  • M. Block
  • R. A. Boll
  • H. Brand
  • D. M. Cox
  • M. Dasgupta
  • X. Derkx
  • A. Di Nitto
  • K. Eberhardt
  • J. Even
  • M. Evers
  • Claes Fahlander
  • Ulrika Forsberg
  • J. M. Gates
  • N. Gharibyan
  • Pavel Golubev
  • K. E. Gregorich
  • J. H. Hamilton
  • W. Hartmann
  • R.-D. Herzberg
  • F. P. Heßberger
  • D. J. Hinde
  • J. Hoffmann
  • R. Hollinger
  • A. Hübner
  • E. Jäger
  • B. Kindler
  • J. V. Kratz
  • J. Krier
  • N. Kurz
  • M. Laatiaoui
  • S. Lahiri
  • R. Lang
  • B. Lommel
  • M. Maiti
  • K. Miernik
  • S. Minami
  • A. Mistry
  • C. Mokry
  • H. Nitsche
  • J. P. Omtvedt
  • G. K. Pang
  • P. Papadakis
  • D. Renisch
  • J. Roberto
  • Dirk Rudolph
  • J. Runke
  • K. P. Rykaczewski
  • Luis Sarmiento
  • M. Schädel
  • B. Schausten
  • A. Semchenkov
  • D. A. Shaughnessy
  • P. Steinegger
  • J. Steiner
  • E. E. Tereshatov
  • P. Thörle-Pospiech
  • K. Tinschert
  • T. Torres De Heidenreich
  • N. Trautmann
  • A. Türler
  • J. Uusitalo
  • D. E. Ward
  • M. Wegrzecki
  • N. Wiehl
  • S. M. Van Cleve
  • V. Yakusheva
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Summary, in English

The superheavy element with atomic number Z=117 was produced as an evaporation residue in the 48Ca+249Bk fusion reaction at the gas-filled recoil separator TASCA at GSI Darmstadt, Germany. The radioactive decay of evaporation residues and their α-decay products was studied using a detection setup that allowed measuring decays of single atomic nuclei with half-lives between sub-μs and a few days. Two decay chains comprising seven α decays and a spontaneous fission each were identified and are assigned to the isotope 294-117 and its decay products. A hitherto unknown α-decay branch in 270Db (Z=105) was observed, which populated the new isotope 266Lr (Z=103). The identification of the long-lived (T1/2=1.0+1.9−0.4 h) α-emitter 270Db marks an important step towards the observation of even more long-lived nuclei of superheavy elements located on an “island of stability.”

Department/s

  • Nuclear physics

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

112

Issue

17

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • superheavy elements
  • element 117
  • alpha-decay

Status

Published

Project

  • Nuclear Structure at the Limits: Isotope-selective Spectroscopy

Research group

  • Nuclear Structure

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1079-7114