As radiochemical techniques have an unsurpassed sensitivity, they are best apt to search for, to identify and to determine very small α-decay branches of longer-lived transuranium nuclides. Therefore, we have develop...As radiochemical techniques have an unsurpassed sensitivity, they are best apt to search for, to identify and to determine very small α-decay branches of longer-lived transuranium nuclides. Therefore, we have developed a chemical separation scheme to search for the 'missing' α-decay branch in 239Cm (T1/2≈3 h). Details of the motivation for this experiment and preliminary results from the first experiments are given elsewhere in this report.展开更多
文摘As radiochemical techniques have an unsurpassed sensitivity, they are best apt to search for, to identify and to determine very small α-decay branches of longer-lived transuranium nuclides. Therefore, we have developed a chemical separation scheme to search for the 'missing' α-decay branch in 239Cm (T1/2≈3 h). Details of the motivation for this experiment and preliminary results from the first experiments are given elsewhere in this report.