One-day Workshop:

The Structure of the Heaviest Elements

Wednesday 12th March 2008

University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus)

Organized by:

Rodi Herzberg [r.herzberg@liv.ac.uk] 0151 794 3382

Witek Nazarewicz [witek@utk.edu] 0141 849 4077

John F. Smith [John.F.Smith@uws.ac.uk] 0141 848 3652

Supported by:

• The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
• The Institute of Physics (Nuclear Physics Group)
• The University of the West of Scotland

Review article

A review article about the spectroscopy of transfermium isotopes

was recently published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics:

Inbeam and decay spectroscopy of transfermium nuclei

R.-D. Herzberg and P.T. Greenlees

Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 61, 674 (2008)

To access the review article, click here.

Overview

On 12th March 2008 a workshop was held at the University of the West

of Scotland in Paisley entitled "The Structure of the Heaviest Elements".

The aim of the workshop was to cover experimental and theoretical topics

relating to the heaviest elements including

• The structure of the transfermium nuclei
• The structure of the superheavy elements
• Decay modes of the heaviest elements
• Astrophysical implications

A key focus of the workshop was how the study of the transfermium

nuclei can inform the structure of the superheavy elements.

The workshop was attanded by 24 participants.

Announcement: Announcement.pdf

Programme: Programme.pdf

List of participants: Participants.pdf

Key questions

The key questions to be addressed are

1. What is the structure of the superheavy elements?
   
   
2. How the study of the transfermium nuclei can inform the
   structure of the superheavy elements

More specifically

• What is predictive power of theory for the transfemiums
  and the superheavies? Are extrapolations reliable?
  
  
• What are experimental uncertainties? What data can be
  safely used by theorists to benchmark modern density functionals?
  
  
• What new experimental data are needed? Is
  there any guidance from theory in that respect?
  
  
• What are the crucial questions regarding the structure
  of the transfermiums?

Presentations

Presentations from the workshop can be downloaded below.