Production of Rf for chemical studies using the gas-jet transport system coupled to GARIS

Haba, Hiromitsu*; Oe, Kazuhiro*; Ozeki, Kazutaka*; Kasamatsu, Yoshitaka*; Kaji, Daiya*; Kudo, Yuki*; Komori, Yukiko*; Sato, Nozomi; Shinohara, Atsushi*; Morita, Kosuke*; Morimoto, Koji*; Yoneda, Akira*

A gas-jet transport system for superheavy element chemistry has been coupled to the gas-filled recoil ion separator GARIS at the RIKEN linear accelerator. In this work, we have investigated the performance of the system using Rf produced in the Cm(O,5)Rf reaction. The present result demonstrates that the GARIS/gas-jet system is a promising approach to explore new frontiers in SHE chemistry: (1) the background radioactivities originating from unwanted reaction products are strongly suppressed, (2) the intense primary heavy-ion beam is absent in the gas-jet chamber, and hence high gas-jet transport efficiency is achieved, and (3) the beam-free conditions also make it possible to investigate new chemical systems that were not accessible before.