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Available nuclear structure information for the known A=256 nuclei (Cf, Es, Fm, Md, No, Lr, Rf and Db) is presented together with Adopted properties of levels and gamma rays. This evaluation supersedes data in the previous evaluations of A=256 nuclides by 1999Ak02, 1989Sc26, 1981Sc06 and 1976Sc02.
Transactinide nuclei around neutron number N = 162 display axially deformed equilibrium shapes, as shown in our previous analysis [1] of constrained mean-field energy surfaces and collective excitation spectra. In the present study we are particularly interested in the occurrence of high-K isomers in the axially deformed isotopes of Rf (Z = 104), Sg (Z = 106), Hs (Z = 108), and Ds (Z = 110), with neutron number N = 160 − 166 and the effect of the N=162 closure on the structure and distribution of two-quasiparticle (2qp) states. The evolution of high-K isomers is analysed in a self-consistent axially-symmetric relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov calculation using the blocking approximation with time-reversal symmetry breaking.
The most important decay modes for heavy and superheavy nuclei are their α-decay and spontaneous fission. This work investigates the evolution and the competition of these decay modes in long isotopic sequences. The partial half-lives are given by minimal sets of parameters extracted from the fit of experimental data and theoretical results. A summary of the experimental and calculated α-decay and spontaneous fission half-lives of the isotopes of elements Rf, Db, and Sg is presented. Some half-life extrapolations for nuclides not yet known are also obtained.
New decay data for the isotopes {sup 259}Sg and {sup 255}Rf were obtained at the velocity filter SHIP using an α-decay spectroscopy measurement. Both isotopes were produced and studied via a one neutron evaporation channel in the compound fusion reaction {sup 54}Cr+{sup 208}Pb. New isomeric states were observed and the single-particle level systematics for isotones with 151 and 153 neutrons were extended. A change of the ground-state configuration for the heaviest N = 151 isotones was observed. Detailed Monte-Carlo simulation for the α decay of {sup 259}Sg applying the GEANT4 toolkit was performed and compared with experimental data.