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TransActinide Separator and Chemistry Apparatus<br />

A Separator for Actinide Based Reactions<br />

www.gsi.de/tasca<br />

M. Schädel, Eur. Phys. J. D 45 (2007) 67<br />

A. Semchenkov et al., NIMB 266 (2008) 4153<br />

Timeline<br />

2002 goals defined<br />

2003 community formed<br />

2004 decision: gas-filled sep sep.<br />

2005 start building TASCA<br />

define commissioning prog.<br />

2006 first beam in cave (Jan.)<br />

first EVR in focal plane det.(Apr.)<br />

2006-2008<br />

TASCA commissioning<br />

2008 commissioning completed:<br />

Transactinides reached! Z=104<br />

2009 Heaviest <strong>Element</strong> at GSI: Z=114<br />

2011 Hunting element 120<br />

Ch.E. Düllmann – <strong>Superheavy</strong> element research – FIAS Colloquium – Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt – October 20, 2011

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