Observation of the 3 evaporation channel in the complete hot-fusion reaction Mg + Cm leading to the new superheavy nuclide Hs

Dvorak, J.*; Brchle, W.*; Chelnokov, M.*; Dllmann, Ch. E.*; Dvorakova, Z.*; Eberhardt, K.*; Jger, E.*; Krcken, R.*; Kuznetsov, A.*; Nagame, Yuichiro; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 100(13), p.132503_1 - 132503_4, 2008/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.132503

The analysis of a large body of heavy ion fusion reaction data with medium-heavy projectiles (6Z18) and actinide targets suggests a disappearance of the 3 exit channel with increasing atomic number of the projectile. Here, we report a measurement of the excitation function of the reaction Cm(Mg,)Hs and the observation of the new nuclide Hs produced in the 3 evaporation channel at a beam energy well below the Bass fusion barrier with a cross section comparable to the maxima of the 4 and 5 channels. This indicates the possible discovery of new neutron-rich transactinide nuclei using relatively light heavy ion beams of the most neutron-rich stable isotopes and actinide targets.