Supremacy of optimal beam energy for synthesis of superheavy elements

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