Isotope shift and search for metastable superheavy elements in astrophysical data
Abstract
We explore a possibility that astrophysical data may contain spectra of metastable nuclei belonging to the island of stability where the nuclei have a magic number of neutrons of N =184 . The laboratory-produced nuclei have a significantly smaller number of neutrons. To identify spectra of the N =184 isotopes of these nuclei and their neutron-rich superheavy decay products in astrophysical data we calculate the isotope shift which should be added to the laboratory-measured wavelengths. The results for the isotope shifts in the strongest optical electromagnetic transitions in No, Lr, Nh, Fl, and Z =120 elements are presented.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1703.04250
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvA..95f2515D
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, no figures