Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti

J. M. Gates, R. Orford, D. Rudolph +51

The ${}^{244}$Pu(${}^{50}$Ti,$xn$)${}^{294-x}$Lv reaction was investigated at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 88-Inch Cyclotron facility. The experiment was aimed at the producti…