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The TASCA '25 program looks interesting. :) Double sharp (talk) 14:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
- (P.S. You might also like this paper theoretically studying 164Pb.) Double sharp (talk) 14:12, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Double sharp: Thanks for sharing! For many of the conference topics, there are already preprints or publications available, though page 10 of the TASCA program states that 257Sg was studied yet I can't find anything else online indicating that isotope was discovered. Any thoughts on that? Complex/Rational 20:47, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
- Can't find anything either. Perhaps we have a paper to look forward to. :) Double sharp (talk) 21:19, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
- It seems that the study regarding 164Pb is not entirely a new idea: I found this article "On the mass surface and the properties of nuclides close to hypothetical doubly magic lead-164" (2001). Table 2 and Table 3 list decay energies of nuclei close to 164Pb, for example the Qα-value of 164Pb is calculated as (5.04 ± 0.20) MeV or 1.29 MeV, while the Qα-value of 168Po is given as (14.03 ± 1.05) MeV or 16.35 MeV. (Yes I am very much more interested in 168Po. Well a Qα-value of 16.35 MeV may result in an alpha half-life as short as about 10－20 s ~ 10－19 s, but that's still longer than the half-life of 5He). :) 129.104.244.68 (talk) 03:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Double sharp: Thanks for sharing! For many of the conference topics, there are already preprints or publications available, though page 10 of the TASCA program states that 257Sg was studied yet I can't find anything else online indicating that isotope was discovered. Any thoughts on that? Complex/Rational 20:47, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
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