In-flight Separation of Heavy Multinucleon Transfer Products using the kinematic separator SHELS
摘要
Multinucleon transfer (MNT) reactions offer a promising pathway for the production and study of neutron-rich nuclei in the heavy and superheavy element regions. The majority of undiscovered nuclei in these regions are expected to exhibit extremely short half-lives and production cross-sections well below the microbarn range, thus demanding highly efficient separation and detection techniques to enable their identification. In this context, to assess the applicability of the Separator for Heavy ELement Spectroscopy SHELS for MNT studies, several collision systems involving Pb and Bi targets were investigated. The results demonstrate that asymmetric reaction systems can be successfully employed with SHELS to study the above-target MNT products. Approximately 40 directly populated