title: Production and decay of element 114: high cross sections and the new nucleus 277Hs.
abstract: The fusion-evaporation reaction 244Pu(48Ca,3-4n){288,289}114 was studied at the new gas-filled recoil separator TASCA. Thirteen correlated decay chains were observed and assigned to the production and decay of {288,289}114. At a compound nucleus excitation energy of E{*}=39.8-43.9  MeV, the 4n evaporation channel cross section was 9.8{-3.1}{+3.9}  pb. At E^{*}=36.1-39.5  MeV, that of the 3n evaporation channel was 8.0{-4.5}{+7.4}  pb. In one of the 3n evaporation channel decay chains, a previously unobserved α branch in 281Ds was observed (probability to be of random origin from background: 0.1%). This α decay populated the new nucleus 277Hs, which decayed by spontaneous fission after a lifetime of 4.5 ms.
authors.affiliation: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany. c.e.duellmann@gsi.de
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