학술논문
48Ca+249Bk Fusion Reaction Leading to Element Z=117: Long-Lived α-Decaying 270Db and Discovery of 266Lr
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Khuyagbaatar, J.; Yakushev, A.; Düllmann, Ch. E.; Ackermann, D.; Andersson, L.-L.; Asai, M.; Block, M.; Boll, R. A.; Brand, H.; Cox, D. M.; Dasgupta, M.; Derkx, X.; Di Nitto, A.; Eberhardt, K.; Even, J.; Evers, M.; Fahlander, Claes; Forsberg, Ulrika; Gates, J. M.; Gharibyan, N.; Golubev, Pavel; Gregorich, K. E.; Hamilton, J. H.; Hartmann, W.; Herzberg, R.-D.; Heßberger, F. P.; Hinde, D. J.; Hoffmann, J.; Hollinger, R.; Hübner, A.; Jäger, E.; Kindler, B.; Kratz, J. V.; Krier, J.; Kurz, N.; Laatiaoui, M.; Lahiri, S.; Lang, R.; Lommel, B.; Maiti, M.; Miernik, K.; Minami, S.; Mistry, A.; Mokry, C.; Nitsche, H.; Omtvedt, J. P.; Pang, G. K.; Papadakis, P.; Renisch, D.; Roberto, J.; Rudolph, Dirk; Runke, J.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; Sarmiento, Luis; Schädel, M.; Schausten, B.; Semchenkov, A.; Shaughnessy, D. A.; Steinegger, P.; Steiner, J.; Tereshatov, E. E.; Thörle-Pospiech, P.; Tinschert, K.; Torres De Heidenreich, T.; Trautmann, N.; Türler, A.; Uusitalo, J.; Ward, D. E.; Wegrzecki, M.; Wiehl, N.; Van Cleve, S. M.; Yakusheva, V.
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Physical Review Letters. 112(17)
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English
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1079-7114
Abstract
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.”