The synthesis of new heavy elements by complete fusion reactions is becoming progressively more difficult due to very small (~ fb) cross sections. The heaviest nuclei we have made are n-deficient. Multi-nucleon transfer reactions appear to offer a path to synthesizing more n-rich transactinide nuclei. Zagerbaev and Greiner have made pioneering calculations of what might be expected in these reactions. We discuss these calculations along with calculations made with a modified version of the GRAZING code that treats fission decay. We compare these calculations with the results of measurements of fragment yields in the 136Xe + 208Pb reaction (Ec.m. =450 MeV). We evaluate the most promising cases for making n-rich transactinde nuclei.

Role of multinucleon transfer reactions in making neutron-rich transactinide nuclei

249th National Meeting (2015)

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