Average charge states of heavy ions in rarefied hydrogen

Yu Ts Oganessian, V. K. Utyonkov, D. I. Solovyev, F. Sh Abdullin, S. N. Dmitriev, D. Ibadullayev, M. G. Itkis, N. D. Kovrizhnykh, D. A. Kuznetsov, O. V. Petrushkin, A. V. Podshibiakin, A. N. Polyakov, A. G. Popeko, R. N. Sagaidak, L. Schlattauer, V. D. Shubin, M. V. Shumeiko, Yu S. Tsyganov, A. A. Voinov, V. G. SubbotinA. Yu Bodrov, A. V. Sabel'nikov, K. P. Rykaczewski, T. T. King, J. B. Roberto, N. T. Brewer, R. K. Grzywacz, Z. G. Gan, Z. Y. Zhang, M. H. Huang, H. B. Yang

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Abstract

We present the results of experiments on measuring the charges of heavy ions from Rn (Z=86) to Og (Z=118) in rarefied hydrogen performed at the DGFRS and DGFRS-2 separators. Two formulae are proposed that can be used to calculate the charges of ions in H2 and which take into account the influence of the shell structure of atoms on the charge value. The accuracy of estimating the charge of ions of superheavy atoms was measured to be 2%. The charges of Ra, Th, and No ions were measured at a hydrogen pressure from 0.5 to 3.3 mbar, which allowed us to evaluate the effect of H2 density on the charge value. A formula is proposed to account for the effect of gas density when performing experiments at different gas pressures. It is shown that the results of experiments performed at different separators DGFRS and DGFRS-2 are in good agreement with each other.

Funding

We express our thanks to N. S. Gustova, M. Voronyuk, and T. P. Drobina, for their help in preparing and carrying out the experiments. We thank the personnel operating the DC280 cyclotron and the associates of the ion-source group for obtaining 48 Ca beams. These studies were supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation through Grant No. 075-10-2020-117 and by the JINR Directorate grant . Research at ORNL was supported by the U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, USA under DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT Battelle, LLC. This work was also supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Grant No. XDB34010000 ).

FundersFunder number
U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Physics
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC05-00OR22725
Chinese Academy of SciencesXDB34010000
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation075-10-2020-117
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

    Keywords

    • Average charge state
    • Gas-filled separator
    • Superheavy elements

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