Supremacy of optimal beam energy for synthesis of superheavy elements

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of selecting optimal beam energies in superheavy element synthesis, using advanced models to predict energies that maximize production cross sections for elements Z=104-120.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis with statistical and dinuclear system models to identify optimal beam energies, improving success rates in synthesizing superheavy elements.

Findings

Optimal beam energies significantly increase production cross sections.

Improper energy choices lead to low measurement feasibility.

Predicted energies can guide future experiments for element synthesis.

Abstract

Besides right choice of entrance channel, selection of optimal beam energies for synthesis of superheavy elements plays a crucial role. A thorough investigation with the advanced statistical and dinuclear system models on all the experiments performed for the synthesis of the successful superheavy elements Z=104-118 and failed superheavy elements Z=119-120 leads us to infer that improper choice of the beam energies may be responsible for too low production cross sections to measure and thus the cause for the debacle. We have predicted the optimal beam energies to obtain the maximum production cross sections for all the reactions used for the superheavy elements Z=104-120. Hope exploitation of these predictions may be on the cards soon to extend the periodic table for the eighth period