Stability and synthesis of superheavy elements: Fighting the battle against fission – example of 254No
Lopez-Martens, A., Henning, G., Khoo, T. L., Seweryniak, D., Alcorta, M., Asai, M., . . . Zhu, S. (2016). Stability and synthesis of superheavy elements: Fighting the battle against fission – example of 254No. In D. Rudolph (Ed.), Nobel Symposium NS 160 - Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements (pp. 03001). EPJ Web of Conferences, 131. EDP Sciences. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201613103001
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Superheavy nuclei exist solely due to quantum shell effects,
which create a pocket in the potential-energy surface of the nucleus, thus
providing a barrier against spontaneous fission. Determining the height of
the fission barrier and its angular-momentum dependence is important to
quantify the role that microscopic shell corrections play in enhancing and
extending the limits of nuclear stability. In this talk, the first measurement of
a fission barrier in the very heavy nucleus 254No will be presented.
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