1. Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti
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Gates, J. M., Orford, R., Rudolph, D., Appleton, C., Barrios, B. M., Benitez, J. Y., Bordeau, M., Botha, W., Campbell, C. M., Chadderton, J., Chemey, A. T., Clark, R. M., Crawford, H. L., Despotopulos, J. D., Dorvaux, O., Esker, N. E., Fallon, P., Folden III, C. M., Gall, B. J. P., Garcia, F. H., Golubev, P., Gooding, J. A., Grebo, M., Gregorich, K. E., Guerrero, M., Henderson, R. A., Herzberg, R. -D., Hrabar, Y., King, T. T., Covo, M. Kireeff, Kirkland, A. S., Krücken, R., Leistenschneider, E., Lykiardopoulou, E. M., McCarthy, M., Mildon, J. A., Müller-Gatermann, C., Phair, L., Pore, J. L., Rice, 1 E., Rykaczewski, K. P., Sammis, B. N., Sarmiento, L. G., Seweryniak, D., Sharp, D. K., Sinjari, A., Steinegger, P., Stoyer, M. A., Szornel, J. M., Thomas, K., Todd, D. S., Vo, P., Watson, V., and Wooddy, P. T.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The $^{244}$Pu($^{50}$Ti,$xn$)$^{294-x}$Lv reaction was investigated at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 88-Inch Cyclotron facility. The experiment was aimed at the production of a superheavy element with $Z\ge 114$ by irradiating an actinide target with a beam heavier than $^{48}$Ca. Produced Lv ions were separated from the unwanted beam and nuclear reaction products using the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator and implanted into a newly commissioned focal plane detector system. Two decay chains were observed and assigned to the decay of $^{290}$Lv. The production cross section was measured to be $\sigma_{\rm prod}=0.44(^{+58}_{-28})$~pb at a center-of-target center-of-mass energy of 220(3)~MeV. This represents the first published measurement of the production of a superheavy element near the `Island-of-Stability', with a beam of $^{50}$Ti and is an essential precursor in the pursuit of searching for new elements beyond $Z=118$., Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
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- 2024