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. 2022 Aug 25;10:976635. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.976635

TABLE 1.

Decay chains from 288Fl, 289Fl and 285Cn observed in chemistry experiments at TASCA.

Chain # Decay assignment (energy in MeV * ) Δt 1 [s] Δt 2 [s] Random probability Detector number b /Temperature Surface
Run I Beam integral 4.0(4)⋅1018
1 α1(9.65)→SF(73 + 61)/ 288 Fl → 284 Cn 0.65 6.3⋅10–6 I-9/21°C Au
2 α1(9.78)→α2 (9.11)→SF(37 + 78)/ 289 Fl→ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 11.6 25.3 1.3⋅10–6 I-9 (α1)/21 °CII-20 (α2,SF)/−32°C Au
Au
Run II Beam integral 3.1(3)⋅1018
3 α1(9.80)→α2(9.08)→SF(79 + 44)/ 289 Fl→ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 62.6 3.6 1.0⋅10–6 II-30/−134°C Ice
Run III Beam integral 6.2(6)⋅1018
4 α1(9.47)→SF(75 + 92)/ 288 Fl → 284 Cn 0.22 1.6⋅10–5 I-2/21°C Au
5 α1(10.02)→SF(97)/ 288 Fl → 284 Cn 0.45 3.1⋅10–4 II-29/−121°C Ice
6 α1(10.29)→SF(81 + 94)/ 288 Fl → 284 Cn 0.18 8.3⋅10–6 I-7 (α1)/21°C Au
I-15(SF)/21°C
7 α1(9.70)→α2(9.31)→SF(86 + 22)/ 289 Fl→ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 78.4 39.7 9.1⋅10–9 II-30/−136 °C Ice
8 α1(9.92)→α2(9.28)→SF(68 + 84)/ 289 Fl→ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 80.0 40.3 1.9⋅10–6 I-13 (α1)/21°CI-31 (α2,SF)/21°C Au
Incomplete chains c
9 α1(9.15)→SF(67 + 50)/ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 25.0 6.2⋅10–2 I-8/21°C Au
10 α1(9.15)→SF(95 + 107)/ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 1.0 2.5⋅10–3 I-8 / 21°C Au
11 α1(8.89)→SF(93 + 124)/ 285 Cn→ 281 Ds 0.8 4.2⋅10–4 II-7 / −7°C Au
a

Values for the α-decay and SF, events detected during beam-off periods are given in bold. The energies of SF, fragments are given as registered without any correction for the pulse height defect.

b

The detector number reflects the number of the COMPACT, array and the number of the detector pair in the array from 1 to 32. The first Au-covered COMPACT, array is denoted as I; the second Au-covered COMPACT, array is denoted as II., Events #3 and #9 were observed in the experiment, where an additional SiO2-covered COMPACT, array was placed upstream of the two Au-covered COMPACT, arrays.

c

The incomplete chains were observed during runs II and III.