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Title: Direct mass measurements above uranium bridge the gap to the island of stability.
Authors: Block, M., Ackermann, D., Blaum, K., Droese, C., Dworschak, M., Eliseev, S., Fleckenstein, T., Haettner, E., Herfurth, F., Heßberger, F. P., Hofmann, S., Ketelaer, J., Ketter, J., Kluge, H.-J., Marx, G., Mazzocco, M., Novikov, Yu. N., Plaß, W. R., Popeko, A., Rahaman, S.
Source: Nature. 2/11/2010, Vol. 463 Issue 7282, p785-788. 4p. 3 Graphs.
Subjects: Spectrum analysis instruments, Nuclides, Nuclear physics, Spectrometers, Mass spectrometers, Migration of uranium, Blocks (Building materials), Collisions (Nuclear physics), Nuclear reactions
Abstract: The mass of an atom incorporates all its constituents and their interactions. The difference between the mass of an atom and the sum of its building blocks (the binding energy) is a manifestation of Einstein’s famous relation E = mc2. The binding energy determines the energy available for nuclear reactions and decays (and thus the creation of elements by stellar nucleosynthesis), and holds the key to the fundamental question of how heavy the elements can be. Superheavy elements have been observed in challenging production experiments, but our present knowledge of the binding energy of these nuclides is based only on the detection of their decay products. The reconstruction from extended decay chains introduces uncertainties that render the interpretation difficult. Here we report direct mass measurements of trans-uranium nuclides. Located at the farthest tip of the actinide species on the proton number–neutron number diagram, these nuclides represent the gateway to the predicted island of stability. In particular, we have determined the mass values of 252-254No (atomic number 102) with the Penning trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP. The uncertainties are of the order of 10 keV/c2 (representing a relative precision of 0.05 p.p.m.), despite minute production rates of less than one atom per second. Our experiments advance direct mass measurements by ten atomic numbers with no loss in accuracy, and provide reliable anchor points en route to the island of stability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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