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The way to superheavy elements

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This review is devoted to the studies of heavy and superheavy elements and the methods of their synthesis and identification. Special attention is paid to the latest discoveries in the area of superheavy elements with Z = 107–112 in cold fusion reactions and Z = 113–118 in reactions between 48Ca and actinides.

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Original Russian Text © B.S. Ishkhanov, T.Yu. Tretyakova, 2017, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 3: Fizika, Astronomiya, 2017, No. 3, pp. 3–20.

This paper is devoted to Academician Georgii Nikolaevich Flerov and researchers of the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia).

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Ishkhanov, B.S., Tretyakova, T.Y. The way to superheavy elements. Moscow Univ. Phys. 72, 203–223 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134917030079

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