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Results and perspectives for study of heavy and super-heavy nuclei and elements at IMP/CAS

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In the past 30 years, synthesis of new isotopes and study of their decay properties have been remaining as high-priority research program at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMP/CAS). Up to now, 34 new isotopes have been synthesized, 22 of which are heavy and super-heavy nuclei. In this paper, the techniques used and the results obtained at IMP/CAS for the study of heavy and super-heavy nuclei and elements are reviewed chronologically and the perspectives in the near future are introduced.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: All experimental data used in the article are published in the form of scientific articles and are available at the specified references.].

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the accelerator crew of HIRFL for providing the stable beams in the past 30 years, and the continuous financial support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. ZDBS-LY-SLH017), the National Key R &D Program of China (Contract No. 2018YFA0404402), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB34010000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 12075286, 11975279), the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research (Grant No. 2021B0301030006), and the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (Grant No. YSBR-002).

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    Z. G. Gan, W. X. Huang, Z. Y. Zhang, X. H. Zhou & H. S. Xu

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Gan, Z.G., Huang, W.X., Zhang, Z.Y. et al. Results and perspectives for study of heavy and super-heavy nuclei and elements at IMP/CAS. Eur. Phys. J. A 58, 158 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00811-w

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