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 SUPER HEAVY ELEMENTS AT GANIL

    During the last decades, the search for super heavy nuclei went on mainly at the Berkeley, GSI and Dubna laboratories. Searching for new elements is an attempt to answer questions of fundamental character: the investigation of nuclei at the limits of stability. GANIL and LPC (Caen), supported by CNRS and CEA, took in 1997 the opportunity to use the velocity filter LISE3 in order to investigate this field of research. For 3 years, technical developments and test experiments have demonstrated the capabilities of the GANIL set-up to pursue this quest of super-heavy elements. An attempt to produce the element 118 with the reaction 86Kr + 208Pb, in a repetition of the Berkeley experiment, has been performed in November-December 1999.

Contact: Ch. Stodel