Colliding a heavy projectile with an even heavier target nucleus only occasionally produces superheavy elements. Analyses of the processes that prevent fusion suggest that projectile size is one of ...

Incomplete fusion dynamics in heavy ion reactions represent a crucial facet of nuclear interaction processes, where only a fragment of the projectile amalgamates with the target nucleus while the ...

Nucleus-nucleus potential (left) and barrier distribution (right) for 40 Ca + 144 Sm. In contrast to light particle induced fusion reactions, the realistic nucleus-nucleus potential is different from ...

The recent discovery of elements 113 and 115 will tell us more about the structure of the nucleus and the possible existence of the “island of stability”. The heaviest elements The periodic table of ...