OK this is the note by the double barerl shotgun under some wood: .....is produced by bombarding in AMERICIUM-245 (AM-245) nucleus with a CALCIUM-48 (mCa46) nucleus. It then decays....after further decay a meta-stable isotope is formed. This leads us to believe that transference of matter is indeed possible and even the re-anamation of........
AMERICIUM-245:
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Title
Determination of the half-life of /sup 245/Am
Resource Type Journal Article
Resource Relation Journal Name: Sov. Radiochem. (Engl. Transl.); (United States); Journal Volume: 25:4; Other Information: Translated from Radiokhimiya (USSR); 25: No. 4, 487-491(Jul-Aug 1983)
Subject 38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; AMERICIUM 245; HALF-LIFE; ALPHA DECAY; BERKELIUM 249; CALCULATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; BERKELIUM ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DATA; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DECAY; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES
Description/Abstract The results of a determination of the half-life of americium-245 are cited. Americium-245 accumulated in the ..cap alpha.. decay of radiochemically pure berkelium-249 was used in the experiment. The half-life of americium-245 was determined according to the data of measurements of seven preparations on a setup of the 2154-1-1M (Protoka) type in 2..pi..-geometry and seven preparations on a setup of the PSO2-2eM type wity SBT-10 end-window counter. The half-life of americium-245, calculated according to the data of measurements of 14 preparations, was equal to 122.5 +/- 0.8 min, at the 0.95 probability level.
CALCIUM-48: Calcium-48 is a rare isotope of calcium containing 20 protons and 28 neutrons. It makes up 0.187% of natural calcium by mole fraction.[1] Although it is unusually neutron-rich for such a light nucleus, the only radioactive decay pathway open to it is the extremely rare process of double beta decay. Its half-life is about 4.3×1019 years,[2] so for all practical purposes it can be treated as stable. One factor contributing to this unusual stability is that 20 and 28 are both magic numbers, making 48Ca a "doubly magic" nucleus.
Since 48Ca is both stable and neutron-rich, it is a valuable starting material for the production of new nuclei in particle accelerators, both by fragmentation[3] and by fusion reactions with other nuclei, for example in the recent production of ununoctium.[4] Heavier nuclei generally require a greater fraction of neutrons for maximum stability, so neutron-rich starting materials are necessary.
48Ca is the lightest nucleus known to undergo double beta decay and the only one simple enough to be analyzed with the sd nuclear shell model. It also releases more energy (4.27 MeV) than any other double beta decay candidate.[2] These properties make it an interesting probe of nuclear structure models and a promising candidate in the ongoing search for neutrinoless double beta decay.
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