https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611701003
A novel approach to the island of stability of super-heavy elements search
1 M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348, Kraków, Poland
2 Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
3 University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
* e-mail: andrzej.wieloch@uj.edu.pl
† Deceased 24 September 2015.
Published online: 11 May 2016
It is expected that the cross section for super-heavy nuclei production of Z > 118 is dropping into the region of tens of femto barns. This creates a serious limitation for the complete fusion technique that is used so far. Moreover, the available combinations of the neutron to proton ratio of stable projectiles and targets are quite limited and it can be difficult to reach the island of stability of super heavy elements using complete fusion reactions with stable projectiles. In this context, a new experimental investigation of mechanisms other than complete fusion of heavy nuclei and a novel experimental technique are invented for our search of super- and hyper-nuclei. This contribution is focused on that technique.
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