Short-Lived Isotopes of Transfermium Elements: Studying Characteristics of Spontaneous Fissioning

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Abstract

series of experiments performed in 2014–2015 using the SHELS separator and a beam of multicharged ions from the U-400 accelerator at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) in Dubna is described. In preparation for a large program of experiments with a beam of highly charged ions of 50Ti, an experiment is performed to study the spontaneous fissioning (SF) of short-lived neutron-deficient isotope 256Rf formed in complete fusion reaction50Ti + 208Pb = 256Rf + 2n. The half-life of 256Rf is measured along with the probability of its SF decay. The average number of neutrons per one event of 256Rf SF (\(\bar v\)= 4.47 ± 0.09) is obtained for the first time. The results from experiments to study the SF of short-lived neutron-deficient isotopes synthesized in complete fusion reaction 48Ca + 204Pb → 252No* are presented as well. Two short-lived activities attributed to the SF of the ground and isomeric states of 250No are revealed. The half-life, total kinetic energies of fission fragments, and neutron multiplicities are measured for the obtained short-lived nuclei. The average numbers of neutrons per one SF event are \(\bar v\)= 4.38 ± 0.13 and \(\bar v\)= 3.90 ± 0.20, respectively, for SF activity with t1/2 = 5.1 ± 0.3 and t1/2 = 36 ± 3 μs.

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A. I. Svirikhin

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Author for correspondence.
Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. V. Yeremin

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. V. Andreev

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

I. N. Izosimov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. V. Isaev

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. N. Kuznetsov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. A. Kuznetsova

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

O. N. Malyshev

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

A. G. Popeko

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

Y. A. Popov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

E. A. Sokol

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

M. L. Chelnokov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

V. I. Chepigin

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

T. M. Schneidman

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna, 141980

B. Gall

IPHC

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Strasbourg, 67037

O. Dorvaux

IPHC

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Strasbourg, 67037

P. Brione

IPHC

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Strasbourg, 67037

K. Hauschild

CSNSM

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Orsay, 91400

A. Lopez-Martenz

CSNSM

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Orsay, 91400

K. Rezynkina

CSNSM

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Orsay, 91400

S. Mullins

iThemba LABS

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
South Africa, Cape Town, 7131

P. Jones

iThemba LABS

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
South Africa, Cape Town, 7131

P. Mosat

Comenius University

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Slovakia, 99 Bratislava, 814

B. Andel

Comenius University

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Slovakia, 99 Bratislava, 814

Z. Kalaninova

Comenius University

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Slovakia, 99 Bratislava, 814

M. Z. Asfari

Comenius University

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Slovakia, 99 Bratislava, 814

N. Yoshihiro

Kyushu University

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Japan, Fukuoka, 819-0395

J. Piot

GANIL

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
France, Caen, 14000

E. Stefanova

INRNE

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Bulgaria, Sofia, 1784

D. Tonev

INRNE

Email: asvirikhin@jinr.ru
Bulgaria, Sofia, 1784

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