May 15 – 20, 2022
Casino Conference Centre
Europe/Prague timezone

Advancements in the fabrication and characterization of actinide targets for superheavy element production

May 16, 2022, 2:40 PM
20m
Marble Hall

Marble Hall

Verbal Chemistry of Actinide and Trans-actinide Elements Actinoids and Transactinoids

Speaker

Prof. Christoph Düllmann (JGU Mainz / GSI Darmstadt / HIM Mainz)

Description

All isotopes of the elements with atomic numbers 114 and above as well as many of the longer-lived isotopes of lighter superheavy elements are only accessible in fusion reactions with actinide targets. Accordingly, the production of actinide targets is an important topic in the field of SHE research, especially with new accelerator facilities coming online that deliver ever more intense heavy-ion beams. After a brief review the current status of actinide target production with a focus on the activities at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, new developments towards the production of thicker and more beam-tolerant targets will be presented. Main current activities focus on improved analytics of irradiated targets to better understand beam-induced modifications and the effects that ultimately lead to target failure, and on the development of novel electrochemical methods that promise to allow overcoming some of the limitations of the current standard technique of molecular plating.

Primary authors

Prof. Christoph Düllmann (JGU Mainz / GSI Darmstadt / HIM Mainz) Ernst Artes (JGU Mainz) Andreas Dragoun (JGU Mainz) Dr Raphael Haas (JGU Mainz / GSI Darmstadt / HIM Mainz) Egon Jäger (GSI Darmstadt) Dr Birgit Kindler (GSI Darmstadt) Dr Bettina Lommel (GSI Darmstadt) Dr Klaus-Michael Mangold (DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Frankfurt a. M., Germany) Carl-Christian Meyer (JGU Mainz / HIM Mainz) Christoph Mokry (JGU Mainz / HIM Mainz) Dr Frans Munnik (HZDR Dresden Rossendorf) Maximilian Rapps (JGU Mainz) Dr Dennis Renisch (JGU Mainz / HIM Mainz) Jörg Runke (GSI Darmstadt / JGU Mainz) Dr Alice Seibert (Joint Research Center – European Commission Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany) Dr Markus Stöckl (DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Frankfurt a. M., Germany) Petra Thörle-Pospiech (JGU Mainz / HIM Mainz) Prof. Christina Trautmann (GSI Darmstadt / TU Darmstadt) Prof. Norbert Trautmann (JGU Mainz) Dr Alexander Yakushev (GSI Darmstadt)

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