We think it will take about 10 times longer to make 120 than 116.
Its not easy, but it seems feasible now.
The teams discovery was announced today and presented at theNuclear Structure 2024conference.
A scientist working on a separator in the experiment. Photo: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab© Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab
The teams paper will be published shortly on the preprint repository arXiv and has been submitted toPhysical Review Letters.
They succeeded, making it the heaviest element yet made at Berkeley Lab.
Theres about a 1 in 1 trillion chance that its a statistical fluke.
A graphic shows a new way to produce element 116 using Titanium-50 and Plutonium-244. © Graphic: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab
The team ultimately made two livermorium atoms across 22 days of operations.
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A graphic showing a possible way to make element 120. © Graphic: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab
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