SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS

Results of experiments on the synthesis of superheavy nuclei in ⁴⁸Ca-induced reactions are presented. The experiments were carried out at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR) Dubna heavy ion cyclotron U400 in the framework of a large collaboration: FLNR ( JINR, Dubna, Russia), IAR (Dimitrovgrad, Russia), LLNL (Livermore, USA), ORNL (Oak-Ridge, USA).

Enriched isotopes of U ÷ Cf were used as targets. In the reactions studied in 2000 — 2010, decays of the heaviest isotopes of Rf ÷ Cn and isotopes of six new elements 113 ÷ 118 were observed.