The quest for superheavy elements and the limit of the periodic table

OR Smits, CE Düllmann, P Indelicato… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The borders of the periodic table of the elements and of the chart of nuclides are not set in
stone. The desire to explore the properties of atoms and their nuclei in a regime of very large …

Status of the high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility in China

X Zhou, J Yang, HIAF Project Team - AAPPS Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
Nuclear physics has been aiming at understanding of the origin, structure, and property of
strongly interacting matters, which constitute nearly all visible matter in the universe. Despite …

Colloquium: Superheavy elements: Oganesson and beyond

SA Giuliani, Z Matheson, W Nazarewicz, E Olsen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
During the last decade, six new superheavy elements were added into the seventh period of
the periodic table, with the approval of their names and symbols. This milestone was …

[HTML][HTML] Pushing the limits of the periodic table—A review on atomic relativistic electronic structure theory and calculations for the superheavy elements

OR Smits, P Indelicato, W Nazarewicz, M Piibeleht… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
We review the progress in atomic structure theory with a focus on superheavy elements and
their predicted ground state configurations important for an element's placement in the …

Dynamics of laser-driven heavy-ion acceleration clarified by ion charge states

M Nishiuchi, NP Dover, M Hata, H Sakaki, K Kondo… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Motivated by the development of next-generation heavy-ion sources, we have investigated
the ionization and acceleration dynamics of an ultraintense laser-driven high-Z silver target …

HIAF: New opportunities for atomic physics with highly charged heavy ions

X Ma, WQ Wen, SF Zhang, DY Yu, R Cheng… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A new project, High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), is currently being under
design and construction in China. HIAF will provide beams of stable and unstable heavy …

How to access QED at a supercritical Coulomb field

RV Popov, VM Shabaev, DA Telnov, II Tupitsyn… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
In slow collisions of two bare nuclei with the total charge number larger than the critical
value, Z cr≈ 173, the initially neutral vacuum can spontaneously decay into the charged …

How to observe the vacuum decay in low-energy heavy-ion collisions

IA Maltsev, VM Shabaev, RV Popov, YS Kozhedub… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
In slow collisions of two bare nuclei with the total charge larger than the critical value Z cr≈
173, the initially neutral vacuum can spontaneously decay into the charged vacuum and two …

Angular and energy distributions of positrons created in subcritical and supercritical slow collisions of heavy nuclei

NK Dulaev, DA Telnov, VM Shabaev, YS Kozhedub… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Positron creation probabilities as well as energy and angular distributions of outgoing
positrons in slow collisions of two identical heavy nuclei are obtained within the two-center …

Spontaneous vacuum decay in low-energy collisions of heavy nuclei beyond the monopole approximation

RV Popov, VM Shabaev, IA Maltsev, DA Telnov… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The problem of spontaneous vacuum decay in low-energy collisions of heavy nuclei is
considered beyond the scope of the monopole approximation. The time-dependent Dirac …