New Islands of Stability Using the Finite-Potential Approach to Superheavy Elements

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Specific properties of heaviest nuclei

• Theoretical approach

  • Energy (mass) of a nucleus

  • α-decay half-lives

  • Spontaneous-fission half-lives

    • Statical approach

    • Dynamical approach

  • Deformation space

    • Equilibrium deformation

    • Fission

• Illustration of theoretical results

  • Deformations and shapes

  • Shell correction to energy (mass) of a nucleus

    • Role of higher-multipolarity deformations in the shell correction

    • Influence of higher-multipolarity deformations on the shell structure of nuclei

  • Mass

  • Half-lives of deformed superheavy nuclei

  • Half-lives of ”spherical” superheavy nuclei

• Conclusions

• References