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The internal conversion coefficients (ICC) were calculated for all atomic subshells of the elements with 104<=Z<=126, the E1...E4, M1...M4 multipolarities and the transition energies between 10 and 1000 keV. The atomic screening was treated…
In this paper we report on internal conversion coefficients for Z = 111 to Z = 126 superheavy elements obtained from relativistic Dirac-Fock (DF) calculations. The effect of the atomic vacancy created during the conversion process has been…
What is the heaviest element? In order to address this question, the elements up to $Z=118$ have been synthesized by now by using heavy-ion fusion reactions. This has completed the 7th period in the periodic table of elements, and new…
We calculate the spectra, electric dipole transition rates and isotope shifts of the super heavy elements Ds (Z=110), Rg (Z=111) and Cn (Z=112) and their ions. These calculations were performed using a recently developed, efficient version…
The hyperfine structure constants of the lowest $s$ and $p_{1/2}$ states of superheavy elements Z=119 and Z= 120$^+$ are calculated using {\em ab initio} approach. Core polarization and dominating correlation effects are included to all…
We have calculated production cross sections of new superheavy elements with atomic number Z=119,120 in the fusion-evaporation reactions of $^{48}$Ca+$^{252}$Es, $^{48}$Ca+$^{257}$Fm, $^{49}$Sc+$^{252}$Es, $^{49}$Sc+$^{251}$Cf,…
A semiempirical shell model mass equation applicable to superheavy elements up to Z = 126 is presented and shown to have a high predictive power. The equation is applied to the recently discovered superheavy nuclei Z = 118, A = 293 and Z =…
We have been testing the theory used to calculate internal-conversion coefficients (ICCs) by making a series of measurements of alpha_K values with precision better than +/-2%. So far we have measured E3 transitions in three nuclei, 103Rh,…
Accurate ab initio calculations of the energy levels of the superheavy elements Z=112 are presented. Relativistic Hartree-Fock and configuration interaction methods are combined with the many-body perturbation theory to construct the…
Advanced theoretical techniques that combine the linearized coupled-cluster method, configuration interaction method, and perturbation theory are used to calculate energy levels, ionization potentials, electron affinities, field isotope…
We present two tables of calculated masses of translead nuclei, for 351 nuclei with N from 94 to 126 and Z from 82 to 100, and for 1969 nuclei with N from 126 to 184 and Z from 82 to 126. The tables are calculated from a semiempirical…
We have measured the K-shell and total internal conversion coefficients (ICCs), alpha_K and alpha_T, for the 109.3-keV M4 transition in 125Te to be 185.0(40) and 350.0(38), respectively. Previously this transition's ICCs were considered…
Currently, 163 isotopes of elements with Z $\ge$ 100 have been observed and the discovery of these isotopes is discussed here. For each isotope a brief synopsis of the first refereed publication, including the production and identification…
High-precision calculations of the energy levels of the superheavy element Z=120 are presented. The relativistic Hartree-Fock and configuration interaction techniques are employed. The correlations between core and valence electrons are…
The two-step model for fusion reactions of massive systems is briefly reviewed.By the use of fusion probabilities obtained by the model and of survival probabilities obtained by the new statistical code, we predict residue cross sections…
We use recently developed method of accurate atomic calculations which combines linearized single-double coupled cluster method with the configuration interaction technique to calculate ionisation potentials, excitation energies, static…
We apply a recently developed method (V. A. Dzuba, PRA 90, 012517 (2014); J. S. M. Ginges and V. A. Dzuba, PRA 91, 042505 (2015)) to calculate energy levels of superheavy elements Uut (Z = 113), Fl (Z = 114), and Fl+. The method combines…
The electronic properties relevant to the superconductivity are reported for bulk Ta-Hf and Ta-Zr body centered cubic alloys, in large part to determine whether their properties are suitable for potential use in superconducting qbits. The…
A highly extrapolatable semiempirical shell model mass equation applicable to translead elements up to Z=126 is presented. The equation is applied to the recently discovered superheavy nuclei with Z=118 and A=293 and with Z=114 and A=289…
The successive ionization potentials (IPs) and electron affinities (EAs) for superheavy elements with $111 \leq Z \leq 114$, namely, Rg, Cn, Nh, and Fl are reexamined using the relativistic Fock-space coupled-cluster method with…