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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+ ²⁴⁸Pu and ⁴⁸Ca+ ²⁴⁹Cf, leading to the synthesis of isotopes of elements with Z=116 and 118.
  
  
• Preparatory 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, ⁸⁶Kr) 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 ⁴⁸Ca + ²¹⁰Pb and ²²Ne + ²⁴²Pu using -, -, - and neutron detectors at the VASSILISSA set-up.
  
  
• Study of cluster structure of the ^11,13B nuclei at the separator COMBAS. Design of the electronic module for the investigation of angular and energy correlations of decay products.
  
  
• Investigation of resonant states in ⁵H, ⁷H, ⁷He, 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 multiclaster decay modes in spontaneous fission of heavy nuclei using the upgraded FOBOS set-up.
  
  
• Experiments on the study of characteristics of fusion reactions, elastic and inelastic scattering of ⁶He on ¹²C and ²⁰⁸Pb using multidetector and MSP-144 spectrometers.
  Charge radii measurements of Zr isotopes using laser spectroscopy.
  
  
• Complex testing of of the MASHA separator. Determination of masses of ⁴⁸Ca + ²⁴³Am reaction products after the chemical separation.
  
  
• 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 and electrostatic separator VASSILISSA	V.K. Utyonkov A.V. Yeremin	Data taking
2.	Chemistry of transactinides.	S.N Dmitriev	Data taking
3.	Fission and cluster decay. CORSET	M.G. Itkis J. Kliman	Data taking Preparation
4.	-, - and - spectroscopy of heavy nuclei. VASSILISSA.	A.V. Yeremin	Data taking Preparation
5.	Nuclei close to the drip lines. Fragment-separator COMBAS.	A.G. Artyukh	Data taking Preparation
6.	Reactions with radioactive nuclei beams. High-resolution beam line ACCULINNA.	G.M. Ter-Akopian	Data taking Preparation
7.	Exotic decay modes. Detector FOBOS.	A. Matthies	Data taking Preparation
8.	Reactions induced by stable and radioactive ion beams of light elements. Laser spectroscopy of nuclei	Yu.E. Penionzhkevich	Data taking Preparation
9.	Launching of the magnetic analyzer of superheavy atoms "MASHA"	S.N. Dmitriev	Preparation Data taking
10.	Theoretical study of mechanisms of heavy ion induced reactions.	V.I. Zagrebaev
11.	Developing the knowledge base on nuclear physics allocated in the Web	V.I. Zagrebaev	Data taking

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