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@MISC{Schausten:68157,
author = {Düllmann, Christoph Emanuel and Yakushev, Alexander and
Rudolph, D.},
othercontributors = {Schausten, Brigitta},
title = {{C}over of the {GSI} {S}cientific {R}eport 2014-1},
reportid = {GSI-2014-02565, GSI Report 2014-1},
year = {2014},
abstract = {The cover shows the set-up and the key results of the
element $Z=115$ experiment conducted at GSI's gas-filled
recoil separator TASCA. The $\alpha$-photon coincidence
spectroscopy set-up TASISpec consists of a box of pixelated
Si-detectors with surrounding composite Ge-detectors
(schematic representation top right). This setup allows
detecting superheavy nuclei via their implantation and
subsequent nuclear decay and their direct identification by
measuring characteristic $X$ rays. \\For the experiment an
intense $^{48}$Ca beam provided by the UNILAC accelerator
impinged on a radioactive $^{243}$Am target wheel placed at
the entrance to TASCA (photo bottom left). 30 correlated
$\alpha$-decay chains, assigned to element 115, were
registered in TASISpec within three weeks. Twenty-two of
them originated from the isotope with mass number 288
(average values given in the displayed chain at the
diagonal). Observed $\alpha$-photon coincidences (black
histograms, upper left) include two $K$ $X$-ray candidates
along the decay chain, the energies of which are compatible
with the assignment of the chains to element $Z=115$.
Further coincidences led for the first time to detailed
decay schemes (lower right) of superheavy elements near the
predicted 'Island of Stability'. The $E1$ $\gamma$ rays in
$^{276}$Mt give rise to significant constraints on nuclear
structure models. A complex, but in parts still tentative,
decay scheme of $^{272}$Bh can explain the emission of the
two $K$ $X$-ray candidates. Detailed GEANT4 Monte-Carlo
simulations (see TASISpec scheme, top right) were employed
for the first time in an experiment on such superheavy
nuclei. They allow for a crucial self-consistency check of
the interpretation (decay schemes, bottom right) of the
measured data (spectra, green curves, top left).\\This
experiment was selected by the American Physics Society as
one of the top ten 'Physics Newsmakers of the Year 2013'.},
cin = {SHC / BUD},
cid = {I:(DE-Ds200)SHC-20090422OR109 /
I:(DE-Ds200)BUD-20051214OR030},
pnm = {533 - Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear Astrophysics (ENNA)
(POF2-533)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-533},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)14},
doi = {10.15120/GR-2014-1-C},
url = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/68157},
}