Conveners
Session 3: Spectroscopy of heavy and super-heavy nuclei
- Dieter Ackermann (GANIL, France)
Despite significant and steady advances in the synthesis of the heaviest elements, reaching the predicted superheavy island of stability is still a distant objective, because of the ever-decreasing cross sections. Nevertheless, nuclear spectroscopy, mass measurements, and laser spectroscopy of the heaviest nuclei have shown their effectiveness by providing information on the quantum nature of...
The deformation of atomic nuclei is one of the important features significantly influencing the properties of the heaviest isotopes far above uranium. It is a decisive factor for their single-particle level structure, with an essential impact on the decay properties and, afterwards, the stability of heaviest nuclei with an odd number of protons or neutrons. Nuclear deformation is also crucial...
By selecting the lowest lying of more than 2000 excitations we found the candidates for high-K ground states / K-isomers in Md - Rg nuclei.
Energies of nuclear configurations are calculated within the microscopic-macroscopic model with the Woods-Saxon potential in two scenarios: via blocking or/and using quasi-particle BCS method. Optimal deformations for a fixed configuration as well as for...
The search for new elements has netted us six additions to the periodic table this decade, bringing the total to 118 known elements. These elements must be formed one-atom-at-a-time in complete-fusion evaporation reaction. Once formed, the atoms typically exist for just seconds or less before they decay into other elements. While we have made great progress in making and studying these...
