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Luis Sarmiento Pico

Senior lecturer

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Flerovium spectroscopy – benchmarking nuclear theory at proton number Z = 114

Author

  • Anton Såmark-Roth
  • Daniel Cox
  • Dirk Rudolph
  • Luis Sarmiento Pico

Summary, in English

In the wake of the discovery of superheavy elements, nuclear spectroscopy experiments aim at providing anchor points at the uppermost end of the nuclear chart for nuclear structure theory, which otherwise had to solely rely on extrapolations. In two runs in 2019 and 2020, such a nuclear spectroscopy experiment was conducted to study α-decay chains stemming from isotopes of flerovium (element Z = 114). One incentive to study flerovium isotopes is that many, but not all, nuclear structure models or model parametrizations favour Z = 114 as the next magic proton number beyond lead, Z = 82.

Department/s

  • Nuclear physics

Publishing year

2020-12-23

Language

English

Publication/Series

NUSTAR Newsletters

Issue

2

Document type

Report

Publisher

FAIR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • superheavy elements
  • element 114 flerovium
  • island of stability

Status

Published

Project

  • Nuclear Structure at the Limits: Isotope-selective Spectroscopy
  • Characterization of New Superheavy Elements

Report number

2020