Isotopes of ununennium

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Ununennium (119Uue) has not yet been synthesised, so all data would be theoretical and a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all synthetic elements, it would have no stable isotopes.

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List of isotopes

No isotopes of ununennium are known.

Nucleosynthesis

Target-projectile combinations leading to Z = 119 compound nuclei

The below table contains various combinations of targets and projectiles that could be used to form compound nuclei with Z = 119. [1]

TargetProjectileCNAttempt result
208Pb87Rb295UueReaction yet to be attempted
209Bi86Kr295UueReaction yet to be attempted
238U59Co297UueReaction yet to be attempted
237Np58Fe295UueReaction yet to be attempted
244Pu55Mn299UueReaction yet to be attempted
243Am54Cr297Uue [2] Reaction yet to be attempted
248Cm51V299UueReaction being attempted
250Cm51V301UueReaction yet to be attempted
249Bk50Ti299UueFailure to date
249Cf45Sc294UueReaction yet to be attempted
254Es48Ca302UueFailure to date

Cold fusion

Following the claimed synthesis of 293Og in 1999 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 208Pb and 86Kr, the analogous reactions 209Bi + 86Kr and 208Pb + 87Rb were proposed for the synthesis of element 119 and its then-unknown alpha decay daughters, elements 117, 115, and 113. [3] The retraction of these results in 2001 [4] and more recent calculations on the cross sections for "cold" fusion reactions cast doubt on this possibility; for example, a maximum yield of 2 fb is predicted for the production of 294Uue in the former reaction. [5] Radioactive ion beams may provide an alternative method utilizing a lead or bismuth target, and may enable the production of more neutron-rich isotopes should they become available at required intensities. [5]

Hot fusion

243Am(54Cr,xn)297−xUue

There are indications that the team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia plans to try this reaction in the future. The product of the 3n channel would be 294Uue; its expected granddaughter 286Mc was synthesised in a preparatory experiment at the JINR in 2021, using the reaction 243Am(48Ca,5n)286Mc. [2]

The team at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou, which is operated by the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also plans to try the 243Am+54Cr reaction in 2024. [6] [7]

248Cm(51V,xn)299−xUue

The team at RIKEN in Wakō, Japan began bombarding curium-248 targets with a vanadium-51 beam in January 2018 [8] to search for element 119. Curium was chosen as a target, rather than heavier berkelium or californium, as these heavier targets are difficult to prepare. [9] The reduced asymmetry of the reaction is expected to approximately halve the cross section, requiring a sensitivity "on the order of at least 30 fb". [10] The 248Cm targets were provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. RIKEN developed a high-intensity vanadium beam. [11] The experiment began at a cyclotron while RIKEN upgraded its linear accelerators; the upgrade was completed in 2020. [12] Bombardment may be continued with both machines until the first event is observed; the experiment is currently running intermittently for at least 100 days per year. [13] [9] The RIKEN team's efforts are being financed by the Emperor of Japan. [14]

248
96Cm
 + 51
23V
 → 299
119Uue
* → no atoms yet

The produced isotopes of ununennium are expected to undergo two alpha decays to known isotopes of moscovium (288Mc and 287Mc respectively), [8] which would anchor them to a known sequence of five further alpha decays and corroborate their production. In 2022, the optimal reaction energy for synthesis of ununennium in this reaction was experimentally estimated as 234.8±1.8 MeV at RIKEN. [15] The cross section is probably below 10 fb. [11]

As of September 2023, the team at RIKEN had run the 248Cm+51V reaction for 462 days. A report by the RIKEN Nishina Center Advisory Committee noted that this reaction was chosen because of the availability of the target and projectile materials, despite predictions favoring the 249Bk+50Ti reaction, owing to the 50Ti projectile being closer to doubly magic 48Ca and having an even atomic number (22); reactions with even-Z projectiles have generally been shown to have greater cross-sections. The report recommended that if the 5 fb cross-section limit is reached without any events observed, then the team should "evaluate and eventually reconsider the experimental strategy before taking additional beam time." [16]

249Bk(50Ti,xn)299−xUue

From April to September 2012, an attempt to synthesize the isotopes 295Uue and 296Uue was made by bombarding a target of berkelium-249 with titanium-50 at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. [17] [18] This reaction between 249Bk and 50Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for formation of ununennium, [18] as it is rather asymmetrical, [19] though also somewhat cold. [20] (The reaction between 254Es and 48Ca would be superior, but preparing milligram quantities of 254Es for a target is difficult.) [19] Moreover, as berkelium-249 decays to californium-249 (the next element) with a short half-life of 327 days, this allowed elements 119 and 120 to be searched for simultaneously. [10] Nevertheless, the necessary change from the "silver bullet" 48Ca to 50Ti divides the expected yield of ununennium by about twenty, as the yield is strongly dependent on the asymmetry of the fusion reaction. [19] Due to the predicted short half-lives, the GSI team used new "fast" electronics capable of registering decay events within microseconds. [18] [19]

249
97Bk
 + 50
22Ti
 → 299
119Uue
* → no atoms
249
98Cf
 + 50
22Ti
 → 299
120Ubn
* → no atoms

Neither element 119 nor element 120 was observed. This implied a limiting cross-section of 65 fb for producing element 119 in these reactions, and 200 fb for element 120. [20] [10] The predicted actual cross section for producing element 119 in this reaction is around 40 fb, which is at the limits of current technology. [19] (The record lowest cross section of an experimentally successful reaction is 30 fb for the reaction between 209Bi and 70Zn producing nihonium.) [19] The experiment was originally planned to continue to November 2012, [21] but was stopped early to make use of the 249Bk target to confirm the synthesis of tennessine (thus changing the projectiles to 48Ca). [20]

The team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, planned to attempt this reaction. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] Currently, beams heavier than 48Ca have not been used at the JINR, but they are actively being developed. [11]

254Es(48Ca,xn)302−xUue

The synthesis of ununennium was first attempted in 1985 by bombarding a sub-microgram target of einsteinium-254 with calcium-48 ions at the superHILAC accelerator at Berkeley, California:

254
99Es
 + 48
20Ca
 → 302
119Uue
* → no atoms

No atoms were identified, leading to a limiting cross section of 300 nb. [28] Later calculations suggest that the cross section of the 3n reaction (which would result in 299Uue and three neutrons as products) would actually be six hundred thousand times lower than this upper bound, at 0.5 pb. [29] Tens of milligrams of einsteinium, an amount that cannot presently be produced, would be needed for this reaction to have a reasonable chance of succeeding. [11]

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