Sizing up the heavyweights

Yuri Oganessian ()
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Yuri Oganessian: Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Nature, 2001, vol. 413, issue 6852, 122-125

Abstract: Colliding a heavy projectile with an even heavier target nucleus only occasionally produces superheavy elements. Analyses of the processes that prevent fusion suggest that projectile size is one of the problems.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1038/35093194

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