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Information on the heaviest elements has been obtained up to now via fusion evaporation reactions. It is however well known that the only nuclei one can reach using fusion-evaporation reactions are neutron deficient and moreover in a very limited number due to the restricted number of beam-target combinations. An alternative to fusion-evaporation could be deep-inelastic collisions. Theoretical calculations predict
large cross-sections for neutron-rich heavy elements production close to zero degrees and at grazing angles. We recently performed an experiment at Argonne National Laboratory using a 136Xe beam on a 238U target. The preliminary results are promising.
The goal of this proposal is to investigate deep inelastic reaction mechanisms in the heavy elements’ region using the AGATA germanium array and DANTE detector coupled to the PRISMA separator. Using a 238U beam on a 64Ni target at grazing angles. Such an experiment would pave the way for future synthesis on the synthesis of new superheavy neutron-rich isotopes.
