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Production and isolation of homologs of flerovium and element 115 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

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New procedures have been developed to isolate no-carrier-added (NCA) radionuclides of the homologs and pseudo-homologs of flerovium (Hg, Sn) and element 115 (Sb), produced by 12–15 MeV proton irradiation of foil stacks with the tandem Van-de-Graaff accelerator at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) facility. The separation of 113Sn from natIn foil was performed with anion-exchange chromatography from hydrochloric and nitric acid matrices. A cation-exchange chromatography method based on hydrochloric and mixed hydrochloric/hydroiodic acids was used to separate 124Sb from natSn foil. A procedure using Eichrom TEVA resin was developed to separate 197Hg from Au foil. These results demonstrate the suitability of using the CAMS facility to produce NCA radioisotopes for studies of transactinide homologs.

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This study was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. This work was funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at LLNL under project tracking code 11-ERD-011, as well as by the LLNL Livermore Graduate Scholar Program.

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  1. Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    John D. Despotopulos, Narek Gharibyan, Patrick M. Grant, Roger A. Henderson, Kenton J. Moody & Dawn A. Shaughnessy

  2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154, USA

    John D. Despotopulos & Ralf Sudowe

  3. University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Kelly N. Kmak

  4. Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    Thomas A. Brown & Scott J. Tumey

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Despotopulos, J.D., Kmak, K.N., Gharibyan, N. et al. Production and isolation of homologs of flerovium and element 115 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 308, 567–572 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4500-z

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