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Synthesis of New Nuclei and Study of Nuclear Properties
and Heavy-Ion Reaction Mechanisms

• Investigation of excitation functions of complete fusion reactions ⁴⁸Ca+ ²⁴⁶Cm and ⁵⁰Ti+ ²⁴⁴Pu,leading to the synthesis of isotopes of element with Z=116.
  
  
• Experiments on chemical isolation and identification of the new elements with Z=112 and 114. Chemical isolation and identification of ²⁶⁸Db produced in ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am reactions. Performing of experiments on the search for superheavy elements in osmium samples.
  
  
• Measurements of subbarrier fusion-fission in the Pb, U, ²⁴⁴Pu, ²⁴⁸Cm + ( ⁴⁸Ca, ⁵⁰Ti, ⁵⁸Fe, ⁶⁴Ni)and ⁶He + ²³²Th, ²³⁸U reactions and analysis of the low-energy fission dynamic using the multidetector "Demon" and a fission fragment trigger "Corset".
  
  
• Study of fusion processes and particle evaporation by excited compound nuclei produced in reactions of ²²Ne, ²⁶Mg, ⁴⁸Ca on ²³⁸U and ²⁴⁴Pu using -, -, - and neutron detectors at the VASSILISSA set-up.
  
  
• Investigation of the symmetric fusion reaction ¹³⁶Xe + ¹³⁶Xe, leading to the formation of Hassium (Z=108) isotopes.
  
  
• Production of ^12,13,15B radioactive nuclear beams at the in-flight separator COMBAS and study of cluster break-up ¹¹B. Design of the focal plane multidetector system with multichannel electronics for carrying out correlation experiments and quadrupole system after COMBAS separator for forming of radioactive beams.
  
  
• Investigation of of the structure of ⁵H, ⁷H, ⁶He, ⁹He and ¹⁰He at ACCULINNA. Design of a detector system for reaction products emitted at the zero angle and leading to neutron rich isotopes of H and He.
  
  
• Investigation of exotic fission modes of heavy nuclei using the upgraded FOBOS set-up.
  
  
• Experiments on the study of subbarrier fusion and transfer reactions of ⁶He and ⁶Li using multidetector and MSP-144 spectrometers at the DRIBs set-up. Charge radii measurements of heavy isotopes using laser spectroscopy.
  
  
• Measurement of ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am reaction products after the chemical separation using the MASHA separator.
  
  
• Theoretical study of mechanisms of heavy ion induced reactions.
  
  
• Developing, filling and supporting the knowledge base on nuclear physics.

List of Activities
	Activity or Experiment	Leader	Status
1.	Synthesis of new isotopes of heavy and superheavy elements. Gas-filled separator of recoil nuclei	V.K. Utyonkov	Data taking
2.	Chemistry of transactinides.	S.N Dmitriev	Data taking
3.	Fission and cluster decay. CORSET	M.G. Itkis J. Kliman	Data taking
4.	-, - and - spectroscopy of heavy nuclei. VASSILISSA.	A.V. Yeremin	Data taking
5.	Investigation of 136Xe + 136Xe reaction products	S.N. Dmitriev A.V. Yeremin	Preparation Data taking
6.	Nuclei close to the drip lines. Fragment-separator COMBAS.	Yu.M. Serada	Data taking Preparation
7.	Reactions with radioactive nuclei beams. High-resolution beam line ACCULINNA.	A.S. Fomichev	Data taking Preparation
8.	Exotic decay modes. Detector FOBOS.	A. Matthies	Data taking Preparation
9.	Reactions induced by stable and radioactive ion beams of light elements. Laser spectroscopy of nuclei	Yu.E. Penionzhkevich	Data taking Preparation
10.	Experiments using the magnetic analyzer of superheavy atoms "MASHA"	S.N. Dmitriev	Preparation Data taking
11.	Theoretical study of mechanisms of heavy ion induced reactions.	V.I. Zagrebaev
12.	Developing the knowledge base on nuclear physics allocated in the Web	V.I. Zagrebaev	Data taking

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