Eur. Phys. J. D 45, 91-97 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00214-6

Chemical properties of the transactinide elements studied in liquid phase with SISAK

¹ Centre for Accelerator based Research and Energy Physics (SAFE), University of Oslo, PO Box 1138 - Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
² Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
³ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1460, USA
⁴ Nuclear Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden

Corresponding author: ^a j.p.omtvedt@kjemi.uio.no

Received: 25 September 2006
Revised: 5 April 2007
Published online: 27 June 2007

Abstract

This article starts with a review of the current SISAK liquid-liquid extraction system, as used after the physical preseparator BGS at LBNL for chemical studies of transactinide elements. Emphasis will be on new additions and developments. Then the possibilities offered by the new TASCA separator at GSI and the use of actinide targets at both GSI and LBNL are discussed with respect to future SISAK transactinide experiments. Finally, current and future liquid-liquid extraction systems for studying elements Rf up to Hs are discussed.