New Uranium-241 Isotope Studied with Multinucleon Transfer and Mass Spectrometry
Researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan have created and examined Uranium-241 and Uranium-242 isotopes using a cyclotron and a mass spectrograph. The process of multinucleon transfer (MNT) was employed to produce the isotopes, which were then analyzed using a newly installed mass spectrograph. The production of new artificial isotopes of uranium allows for experimental confirmation of theoretical predictions and extrapolations from previous data, potentially leading to discoveries such as the predicted island of stability with superheavy, stable elements.