The main goal of the PUMA (antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation) experiment is to use antiprotons as a tool to investigate properties of exotic nuclei. For this, antiprotons produced at the AD/CERN and decelerated by the ELENA storage ring will be captured, cooled and transported to the ISODLE facility where the antiprotons will be mixed with short lived isotopes. During this process, an...
The detailed study of radioactive nuclei has resulted in opportunities for addressing many open questions in nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. For over three decades, the TwinSol separator at the University of Notre Dame has produced high-quality in-flight radioactive beams at low-energy for light isotopes that have been used in experiments aimed at nuclear structure, astrophysics,...
The FAZIA apparatus is a multi-detector array designed to identify a wide range of charge and mass of reaction products in heavy-ion collisions in the Fermi energy domain. The basic module of FAZIA is the block, consisting of 16 three-layer telescopes. The first two layers are highly homogeneously doped Si detectors with the thickness of 300 μm and 500 μm, respectively, and the third layer is...
As humans, we are a mixture of diverse chemical elements, a fragile composition that hangs in an improbable yet finely tuned balance. If this is disturbed, either due to a deficiency or excess of certain elements, it can lead to pathologies which have been linked to severe diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, or Parkinson’s disease. For many metals in our body, such as Mg, Zn and Cu,...
The periodic table is now completely filled up to the seventh period. The synthesis of elements 119 and 120 has been attempted in several cases using the combination of actinide targets and projectile beams heavier than $^{48}$Ca. However, these new elements have not been discovered yet so far [1-4].
In the synthesis of superheavy elements, the reaction energy is the most important parameter...
