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Title: A beachhead on the island of stability

Journal Article · · Physics Today
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2880· OSTI ID:1337838
 [1];  [2]
  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Remember learning the periodic table of elements in high school? Our chemistry teachers explained that the chemical properties of elements come from the electronic shell structure of atoms. Furthermore, our physics teachers enriched that picture of the atomic world by introducing us to isotopes and the Segrè chart of nuclides, which arranges them by proton number Z and neutron number N.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1337838
Journal Information:
Physics Today, Vol. 68, Issue 8; ISSN 0031-9228
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 45 works
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Towards a self-consistent dynamical nuclear model journal February 2017
Alpha half-lives calculation of superheavy nuclei with Q α -value predictions based on the Bayesian neural network approach journal October 2019
Theoretical studies on the modes of decay of superheavy nuclei journal November 2016
Theoretical predictions on the decay properties of superheavy nuclei Z = 123 in the region $297 \le A \le 307$ 297 ≤ A ≤ 307 journal December 2016
Exploring the chemical nature of super-heavy main-group elements by means of efficient plane-wave density-functional theory journal January 2019
α decay properties of 296 Og within the two-potential approach journal April 2018
α -decay chains and cluster radioactivity of 295−299 119 and 298−302 120 isotopes using zero- and finite-range NN interactions journal May 2019
α decay properties of 297 Og within the two-potential approach journal November 2017
Additional hindrance of unfavored α decay between states of different parity journal April 2019
The predictive accuracy of analytical formulas and semiclassical approaches for α decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei journal January 2018

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