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- Title
On the volatility of nihonium (Nh, Z = 113).
- Authors
Aksenov, Nikolay; Steinegger, Patrick; Abdullin, Farid; Albin, Yury; Bozhikov, Gospodin; Chepigin, Viktor; Eichler, Robert; Lebedev, Vyacheslav; Madumarov, Alexander; Malyshev, Oleg; Petrushkin, Oleg; Polyakov, Alexander; Popov, Yury; Sabel'nikov, Alexey; Sagaidak, Roman; Shirokovsky, Igor; Shumeiko, Maksim; Starodub, Gennadii; Tsyganov, Yury; Utyonkov, Vladimir
- Abstract
Gas-phase chromatography studies of nihonium (Nh, $Z=113$ ) were carried out at the one-atom-at-a-time level. For the production of nihonium, the heavy-ion-induced nuclear fusion reaction of Ca with Am was used. This leads to isotopes Nh, as the direct descendants of the $\alpha$ -decaying precursors Mc. Combining the Dubna Gas-Filled Recoil Separator with gas-phase chromatographic separation, the experiment was sensitive to elemental nihonium and its adsorption behavior on Teflon, theoretically predicted by modern relativistic density functional theory. The non-observation of any decays of Nh after the chemical separation indicates a larger than expected retention of elemental Nh on a Teflon surface.
- Subjects
NIHONIUM; GAS chromatography; HEAVY ion fusion reactions; SEPARATION of gases; DENSITY functional theory
- Publication
European Physical Journal A -- Hadrons & Nuclei, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
1434-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epja/i2017-12348-8