- When?
- February 28, 2017 4:00 PM
- Where?
- VIP room (X 5114.0001)
What?
The heaviest elements in the periodic table, with a proton number higher than 100, can only be produced at accelerator facilities in nuclear fusion reaction by applying highly intense ion beams. Recently, the IUPAC/IUPAP Joined Working Party validated the discovery of the elements 113 (in RIKEN, Japan) and of the elements 115, 117, and 118 (in Dubna, Russia). Thus, these elements were named and received their place in the periodic table. The hunt for these elements is extremely time consuming and challenging. The production rates are in the worst case about one atom within several months and their half-lives range from a few minutes down to a millisecond.