Isotopes map uncharted realm

摘要

The production of six new heavy isotopes promises to shed light on the shell model for nuclear structure of the periodic table's heavier elements.rnThe new nuclei - which fit into the periodic table between rutherfordium (element 104) and the as-yet-unnamed element 114 -were created in a single radioactive decayrnchain by Paul Ellison at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and his co-workers.