First observation of new heavy multi-nucleon transfer products in the ⁴⁸Ca+²⁴⁸Cm reaction performed at SHIP

Heavy ion fusion reactions have been successfully used to synthesise super heavy elements (SHE). The heaviest element produced up to now is element Z=118 and the production cross-section limit using conventional HI-fusion has been reached experimentally. Since these methods cannot be applied to reach neutron-rich super heavy nuclei due to the lack of sufficiently neutron-rich projectile and target nuclei. New calculations suggest the use of Multi Nucleon Transfer (MNT) reactions as a promising pathway to the synthesis of new neutron-rich SHE with proton numbers up to about Z=106. In this work, we present results from the analysis of experimental data on MNT reactions with the ⁴⁸Ca projectile incident on ²⁴⁸Cm target. The experiment was performed at SHIP, GSI in 2010