Nuclear isomers in superheavy elements as stepping stones towards the island of stability

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7105, 2006, Pages 896-899

  Herzberg, R D ^a   Greenlees, P T ^b   Butler, P A ^a   Jones, G D ^a   Venhart, M ^c   Darby, I G ^a   Eeckhaudt, S ^b   Eskola, K ^d   Grahn, T ^b   Gray Jones, C ^a   Hessberger, F P ^e   Jones, P ^b   Julin, R ^b   Juutinen, S ^b   Ketelhut, S ^b   Korten, W ^f   Leino, M ^b   Leppanen A P ^b   Moon, S ^a   Nyman, M ^b   Page, R D ^a   Pakarinen, J ^a,b   Pritchard, A ^a   Rahkila, P ^b   Saren J ^b   Scholey, C ^b   Steer, A ^b   Sun, Y ^g   Theisen, Ch ^f   Uusitalo, J ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; FUSION REACTIONS; HEAVY IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PROTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR ISOMERS; NUCLEI; PROTON EXCITATION; SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS;

ISOMERS;

FERMIUM; ISOTOPE; NOBELIUM; PROTON;

ACTINIDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY METAL; ION EXCHANGE; ISLAND; MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMER; ISOMERISM; NEUTRON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33747825653     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05069     Document Type: Article

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