https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201613106001
The discovery of elements 107 to 112
1 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
2 Institut für Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
a e-mail: S.Hofmann@gsi.de
Published online: 1 December 2016
In the 1960s, theoretical concepts prepared the path to nuclear matter with proton and neutron numbers far beyond the nuclei known at that time. The new laboratory GSI was founded for research on reactions with heavy ions, in particular those for production of the predicted super-heavy nuclei. In this contribution it is presented how the interaction between experiment and theory resulted in a continuous improvement of the experimental set-ups on the one hand, and of the knowledge of the processes during the nuclear reaction and of the properties of the produced nuclei on the other hand. In the course of this work six new elements from 107 to 112 were produced and identified. An overview of the present status of experimental results and a comparison with theoretical interpretations is given.
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