03-5-1130-2017/2021
 
Priority: 1
   
Status: In-progress
 

Synthesis and Properties of Superheavy Elements,
Structure of Nuclei at the Limits of Nucleon Stability
 

Leader:     M.G. Itkis
Scientific leader:                Yu.Ts. Oganessian

Participating countries and international organizations:
Belgium, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam.


Issues addressed and main goals of research:
Synthesis and investigation of the properties of nuclei at stability limits. Investigation of the mechanisms of heavy-ion-induced reactions. Study of the physical and chemical properties of heavy and superheavy elements.

Expected results in the current year:
  • Experiments on the synthesis of Mc isotopes in the 48Ca + 243Am reaction at the SHE Factory.

  • Experiments on the synthesis of Fl isotopes in the 48Ca + 242Pu reaction aimed at studying the chemical properties of Fl using the DGFRS-2 separator.

  • Preparation for and the launch of experiments on the synthesis of elements 119 and 120 in the complete fusion reactions with 50Ti projectiles.

  • Experiments on the study of the decay properties (-, -, gamma-spectroscopy) of Sg isotopes and heavy isotopes of Rf formed in the reactions with 54Cr and 22Ne using the SHELS + GABRIELA separator. Experiments on measuring the multiplicity of prompt neutrons from the spontaneous fission of heavy Rf isotopes in the reactions with 22Ne. Test experiment on the spectroscopy of the decay properties of the 288Mc isotopes and its daughter products in the 48Ca + 243Am reaction.

  • Experiments on the study of the chemical properties of Db and Nh in the 48Ca + 243Am reaction. Preparation for chemistry experiments at the SHE Factory.

  • Analysis of experiments conducted with the MASHA set-up aimed at studying the operational stability of a new design of the hot catcher for the separation of short-lived mercury and radon isotopes synthesized in complete fusion reactions.

  • Investigation of the mass-energy and angular distributions of fragments produced in the 44Ca + 206Pb reaction. Study of the mechanism of multinucleon transfer in the 136Xe + 194Pt reaction. Study of multi-body decays of low-excited heavy nuclei. Study of the multicluster decay of heavy and superheavy nuclei. Development of physics set-ups.

  • Study of nuclei with Z<20 near the boders of nucleon stability. Investigation of the structure of the exotic nuclei 7He, 10Li, 26Si, and 25P using radioactive ion beams at the ACCULINNA-1 and ACCULINNA-2 set-ups.

  • Experiments conducted at the MAVR set-up for the study of fast charged particles in coincidence with recoil nuclei aimed at determining the reaction mechanism for experiments on the synthesis of new elements. Study of the yields of products in multinucleon transfer reactions. Measurement of total reaction cross sections using low-intensity beams of exotic nuclei.

  • Theoretical studies of the mechanisms of heavy-ion-induced reactions.

  • Maintenance and update of the web knowledge base on nuclear physics.

  • Investigation of shapes and sizes of exotic nuclei employing laser spectroscopy methods.
List of Activities
  Activity or Experiment Leaders
Status
      Laboratory or other
    Division of JINR
Responsible person
Main researchers
1. Synthesis of new isotopes of
superheavy elements at DGFRS
V.K. Utyonkov
Data taking
  FLNR F.Sh. Abdullin, N.D. Kovrijnykh, D.A. Kuznetsov, A.N. Polyakov, O.V. Petrushkin, R.N. Sagaidak, V.D. Shubin, V.G. Subbotin, I.V. Shirokovsky, M.V. Shumeiko, D.I. Solov'ev, L. Schlattauer, Yu.S. Tsyganov, A.A. Voinov, A.M. Zubareva
2. -, - and gamma- spectroscopy
of heavy nuclei at the SHELS
separator
A.V. Yeremin
Data taking
  FLNR V.I. Chepigin, M.L. Chelnokov, A.V. Isaev, I.N. Izosimov, D.E. Katrasev, A.N. Kuznetsov, A.A. Kuznetsova, O.N. Malyshev, Yu.A. Popov, V.M. Popov, A.G. Popeko, E.A. Sokol, A.I. Svirikhin, V.A. Sbitnev, M.S. Tezekbaeva
3. Chemical properties of superheavy
elements
S.N. Dmitriev
Data taking
  FLNR N.V. Aksenov, Yu.V. Albin, A.A. Astakhov, A.Yu. Bodrov, G.A. Bozhikov, I. Chuprakov, N.S. Gustova, K.V. Lebedev, A.Sh. Madumarov, E.V. Melnik, A.V. Sabelnikov, G.Ya. Starodub, G.K. Vostokin, M.G. Voronyuk
4. Experiments at the magnetic
analyzer of superheavy atoms
MASHA
A.M. Rodin
Data taking
  FLNR E.V. Chernusheva, A.V. Guljaev, A.V. Guljaeva, D. Kamas, A.B. Komarov, L. Krupa, A.S. Novoselov, A.Opihal, A.V. Podshibyakin, V.S. Salamatin, S.V. Stepantsov, V.Yu. Vedeneev, S.A. Yukhimchuk
5. Study of the processes
of fusion-fission, quasi-fission and
multi-nucleon transfer reactions.
CORSET-DEMON, CORSAR,
and MiniFOBOS set-ups
M.G. Itkis
Data taking
  FLNR A.A. Alexandrov, I.A. Alexandrova, T. Banerjee, I.N. Dyatlov, O.V. Falomkina, Z.I. Gorya'nova, Yu.M. Itkis, D.V. Kamanin, V.V. Kirokasian, E.M. Kozulin, N.I. Kozulina, G.N. Knyazheva, E.A. Kuznetsova, D. Kumar, C.H. Meghashree, K.V. Novikov, A. Pan, I,V, Pchelintsev, Yu.V. Pyatkov, E.O. Savelieva, Yu.B. Semenov, A.N. Solodov, A.O. Strekalovsky, O.V. Strekalovskiy, I.V. Vorob'ev, A.O. Zhukova, V.E. Zhuchko
  LIT P.V. Goncharov, G.A. Ososkov, A.V. Uzhinsky, V.B. Zlokazov
6. Study of the structure of exotic
nuclei near and beyond the
drip-lines at the ACCULINNA-1,
ACCULINNA-2 and COMBAS
fragment separators
A.S. Fomichev
Data taking
  FLNR A.G. Artukh, E. Batchuluun, S.G. Belogurov, A.A. Bezbakh, V. Chudoba, M.S. Golovkov, L.V. Grigorenko, A.V. Gorshkov, E.M. Gazeeva, V.A. Gorshkov, A. Ismailova, G. Kaminski, S.A. Krupko, S.A. Klygin, G.A. Kononenko, K.A. May, B. Mauyey, I.A. Muzalevskiy, E.Yu. Nikolskii, Yu.L. Parfenova, W. Piatek,, S.A. Rimzhanova, Yu.M. Sereda, S.I. Sidorchuk, R.S. Slepnev, P.G. Sharov, S.V. Stepantsov, A. Swiercz, P. Szymkiewicz, G.M. Ter-Akopian, R. Wolski, A.N. Vorontsov, B. Zalewski
  BLTP S.N. Ershov, N.B. Shulgina
7. Investigation of reactions induced
by stable and radioactive ion beams
leading to the formation of exotic
nuclei. Development of MAVR and
MULTI set-ups
Yu.E. Penionzhkevich
Data taking
  FLNR D.T. Aznabaev, T. Isataev, S.M. Lukyanov, V.A. Maslov, K.O. Mendibaev, R.V. Revenko, I. Sivacek, N.K. Skobelev, Yu.G. Sobolev, V.I. Smirnov, S.S. Stukalov, D.A. Testov, V.A. Zernyshkin
8. Theoretical studies of nuclear
reaction mechanisms
A.V. Karpov
 
  FLNR E.A. Cherepanov, A.S. Denikin, Yu.A. Muzichka, M.A. Naumenko, V.A. Rachkov, V.V. Samarin, V.V. Saiko
9. Development and update of the
network knowledge base on
nuclear physics
A.V. Karpov
A.S. Denikin
Data taking
  FLNR M.A. Naumenko, V.A. Rachkov, V.V. Samarin, V.V. Saiko
  LIT E.I. Alexandov, V.V. Korenkov, P.V. Zrelov
10. Laser spectroscopy of isotopes S.G. Zemlyanoy
Data taking
  FLNR K.A. Avvakumov, G.N. Myshinskiy, V.I. Zhemenik, B. Zuzaan

Collaboration
Country or International
Organization
City Institute or Laboratory
Belgium Brussels ULB  
  Leuven KU Leuven  
Bulgaria Sofia INRNE BAS  
CERN Geneva CERN  
China Beijing PKU  
  Lanzhou IMP CAS  
Czech Republic Prague CTU  
    VP  
  Olomouc UP  
  Rez NPI CAS  
Egypt Giza CU  
  Shibin El Kom MU  
Finland Jyvaskyla UJ  
France Caen GANIL  
  Orsay CSNSM  
    IPN Orsay  
  Saclay SPhN CEA DAPNIA  
  Strasbourg CRN  
    IPHC  
Germany Berlin HZB  
  Darmstadt GSI  
  Mainz JGU  
  Tubingen Univ.  
India New Delhi IUAC  
  Kolkata VECC  
  Manipal MU  
  Rupnagar IIT Ropar  
  Roorkee IIT Roorkee  
Italy Catania INFN LNS  
  Legnaro INFN LNL  
  Messina UniMe  
  Naples Unina  
Japan Wako RIKEN  
  Tokai JAEA  
Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan ENU  
  Almaty INP  
    IETP KazNU  
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar NRC NUM  
Poland Warsaw UW  
  Krakow NINP PAS  
  Poznan AMU  
Romania Bucharest IFIN-HH  
Russia Moscow IPCE RAS  
    MSU  
    MUCTR  
    NNRU "MEPhI"  
    NRC KI  
    SINP MSU  
  Moscow, Troitsk INR RAS  
  Moscow, Zelenograd RIMST  
  Dimitrovgrad SSC RIAR  
  Gatchina NRC KI PNPI  
  Sarov VNIIEF  
  St. Petersburg Ioffe Institute  
    KRI  
    SPbSU  
  Voronezh VSU  
Slovakia Bratislava CU  
    IP SAS  
South Africa Pretoria UNISA  
  Faure iThemba LABS  
  Stellenbosch SU  
Spain Huelva UHU  
Switzerland Villigen PSI  
Sweden Goteborg Chalmers  
  Lund LU  
Ukraine Kiev KINR NASU  
United Kingdom Manchester UoM  
USA Lemont, IL ANL  
  College Station, TX Texas A&M  
  East Lansing, MI MSU  
  Livermore, CA LLNL  
  Nashville, TN VU  
  Oak Ridge, TN ORNL  
Vietnam Hanoi IOP VAST