Isotopes of unbinilium

No isotopes of unbinilium are known.

The below table contains various combinations of targets and projectiles that could be used to form compound nuclei with Z = 120.{{cite report |url=https://indico.cern.ch/event/200117/contributions/1484176/attachments/298043/416546/Dinitto_TSR_ISOLDE.pdf |title=Isospin dependence in heavy-element synthesis in fusion-evaporation reactions with neutron-rich radioactive ion-beams |author=A. Yakushev |display-authors=etal}}

In April 2007, the team at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany attempted to create unbinilium using a ²³⁸U target and a ⁶⁴Ni beam:

:{{nuclide|U|238}} + {{nuclide|Ni|64}} → {{nuclide|Ubn|302}}* → no atoms

No atoms were detected, providing a limit of 1.6 pb for the cross section at the energy provided. The GSI repeated the experiment with higher sensitivity in three separate runs in April–May 2007, January–March 2008, and September–October 2008, all with negative results, reaching a cross section limit of 90 fb.{{cite report|last=Hoffman|first=S.|display-authors=etal|title=Probing shell effects at Z = 120 and N = 184|date=2008|publisher=GSI Scientific Report|page=131}}

Following their success in obtaining oganesson by the reaction between ²⁴⁹Cf and ⁴⁸Ca in 2006, the team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna started experiments in March–April 2007 to attempt to create unbinilium with a ⁵⁸Fe beam and a ²⁴⁴Pu target.{{cite news |url=https://www.llnl.gov/str/April07/pdfs/04_07.4.pdf|title=A New Block on the Periodic Table |date=April 2007|publisher=Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|access-date=2008-01-18}}{{cite web |url=http://wwwinfo.jinr.ru/plan/ptp-2007/e751004.htm |title=Synthesis of New Nuclei and Study of Nuclear Properties and Heavy-Ion Reaction Mechanisms |last1=Itkis |first1=M. G. |last2=Oganessian |first2=Yu. Ts. |date=2007 |website=jinr.ru |publisher=Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |access-date=23 September 2016}} Initial analysis revealed that no atoms of unbinilium were produced, providing a limit of 400 fb for the cross section at the energy studied.{{cite journal|journal=Phys. Rev. C|volume=79|issue=2|at=024603|date=2009 |title=Attempt to produce element 120 in the ²⁴⁴Pu+⁵⁸Fe reaction|doi=10.1103/PhysRevC.79.024603 |last1=Oganessian|first1=Yu. Ts.|last2=Utyonkov|first2=V.|last3=Lobanov|first3=Yu. |display-authors=etal |bibcode=2009PhRvC..79b4603O}}

:{{nuclide|Pu|244}} + {{nuclide|Fe|58}} → {{nuclide|Ubn|302}}* → no atoms

The Russian team planned to upgrade their facilities before attempting the reaction again.

There are indications that this reaction may be tried by the JINR in the future. The expected products of the 3n and 4n channels, ²⁹⁶Ubn and ²⁹⁵Ubn, could undergo five alpha decays to reach the darmstadtium isotopes ²⁷⁶Ds and ²⁷⁵Ds respectively; these darmstadtium isotopes were synthesised at the JINR in 2022 and 2023 respectively, both in the ²³²Th+⁴⁸Ca reaction.{{cite news |title=New darmstadtium isotope discovered at Superheavy Element Factory |url=http://www.jinr.ru/posts/new-darmstadtium-isotope-discovered-at-superheavy-element-factory/ |publisher=Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |date=27 February 2023 |access-date=29 March 2023}}

In 2011, after upgrading their equipment to allow the use of more radioactive targets, scientists at the GSI attempted the rather asymmetrical fusion reaction:

:{{nuclide|Cm|248}} + {{nuclide|Cr|54}} → {{nuclide|Ubn|302}}* → no atoms

It was expected that the change in reaction would quintuple the probability of synthesizing unbinilium,{{cite web |title=Searching for the island of stability |author=GSI |website=www.gsi.de |date=5 April 2012 |publisher=GSI |url=https://www.gsi.de/de/work/forschung/nustarenna/nustarenna_divisions/she_physik/research/super_heavy_elements/future_projects.htm |access-date=23 September 2016}} as the yield of such reactions is strongly dependent on their asymmetry.{{sfn|Zagrebaev|Karpov|Greiner|2013}} Although this reaction is less asymmetric than the ²⁴⁹Cf+⁵⁰Ti reaction, it also creates more neutron-rich unbinilium isotopes that should receive increased stability from their proximity to the shell closure at N = 184. Three signals were observed in May 2011; a possible assignment to ²⁹⁹Ubn and its daughters was considered,{{cite conference |title=Remarks on the Fission Barriers of SHN and Search for Element 120 |display-authors=3 |first1=S. |last1=Hofmann |first2=S. |last2=Heinz |first3=R. |last3=Mann |first4=J. |last4=Maurer |first5=G. |last5=Münzenberg |first6=S. |last6=Antalic |first7=W. |last7=Barth |first8=H. G. |last8=Burkhard |first9=L. |last9=Dahl |first10=K. |last10=Eberhardt |first11=R. |last11=Grzywacz |first12=J. H. |last12=Hamilton |first13=R. A. |last13=Henderson |first14=J. M. |last14=Kenneally |first15=B. |last15=Kindler |first16=I. |last16=Kojouharov |first17=R. |last17=Lang |first18=B. |last18=Lommel |first19=K. |last19=Miernik |first20=D. |last20=Miller |first21=K. J. |last21=Moody |first22=K. |last22=Morita |first23=K. |last23=Nishio |first24=A. G. |last24=Popeko |first25=J. B. |last25=Roberto |first26=J. |last26=Runke |first27=K. P. |last27=Rykaczewski |first28=S. |last28=Saro |first29=C. |last29=Schneidenberger |first30=H. J. |last30=Schött |first31=D. A. |last31=Shaughnessy |first32=M. A. |last32=Stoyer |first33=P. |last33=Thörle-Pospiech |first34=K. |last34=Tinschert |first35=N. |last35=Trautmann |first36=J. |last36=Uusitalo |first37=A. V. |last37=Yeremin |year=2016 |conference=Exotic Nuclei |editor1-first=Yu. E. |editor1-last=Peninozhkevich |editor2-first=Yu. G. |editor2-last=Sobolev |book-title=Exotic Nuclei: EXON-2016 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei |pages=155–164 |isbn=9789813226555}} but could not be confirmed,{{cite web |url=https://jphysplus.iop.org/2015/10/02/weighty-matters-sigurd-hofmann-on-the-heaviest-of-nuclei/ |title=Weighty matters: Sigurd Hofmann on the heaviest of nuclei |last1=Adcock |first1=Colin |date=2 October 2015 |website=JPhys+ |publisher=Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics |access-date=23 September 2016 |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718025533/https://jphysplus.iop.org/2015/10/02/weighty-matters-sigurd-hofmann-on-the-heaviest-of-nuclei/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |last=Hofmann |first=Sigurd |date=August 2015 |title=Search for Isotopes of Element 120 on the Island of SHN |journal=Exotic Nuclei |pages=213–224 |doi=10.1142/9789814699464_0023|bibcode=2015exon.conf..213H |isbn=978-981-4699-45-7 }}{{cite journal |display-authors=3 |last1=Hofmann |first1=S. |last2=Heinz |first2=S. |first3=R. |last3=Mann |first4=J. |last4=Maurer |first5=G. |last5=Münzenberg |first6=S. |last6=Antalic |first7=W. |last7=Barth |first8=H. G. |last8=Burkhard |first9=L. |last9=Dahl |first10=K. |last10=Eberhardt |first11=R. |last11=Grzywacz |first12=J. H. |last12=Hamilton |first13=R. A. |last13=Henderson |first14=J. M. |last14=Kenneally |first15=B. |last15=Kindler |first16=I. |last16=Kojouharov |first17=R. |last17=Lang |first18=B. |last18=Lommel |first19=K. |last19=Miernik |first20=D. |last20=Miller |first21=K. J. |last21=Moody |first22=K. |last22=Morita |first23=K. |last23=Nishio |first24=A. G. |last24=Popeko |first25=J. B. |last25=Roberto |first26=J. |last26=Runke |first27=K. P. |last27=Rykaczewski |first28=S. |last28=Saro |first29=C. |last29=Scheidenberger |first30=H. J. |last30=Schött |first31=D. A. |last31=Shaughnessy |first32=M. A. |last32=Stoyer |first33=P. |last33=Thörle-Popiesch |first34=K. |last34=Tinschert |first35=N. |last35=Trautmann |first36=J. |last36=Uusitalo |first37=A. V. |last37=Yeremin |date=2016 |title=Review of even element super-heavy nuclei and search for element 120 |journal=The European Physical Journal A |volume=2016 |issue=52 |pages=180 |doi=10.1140/epja/i2016-16180-4|bibcode=2016EPJA...52..180H |s2cid=124362890 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304459935 }} and a different analysis suggested that what was observed was simply a random sequence of events.{{cite journal |last1=Heßberger |first1=F. P. |last2=Ackermann |first2=D. |date=2017 |title=Some critical remarks on a sequence of events interpreted to possibly originate from a decay chain of an element 120 isotope |journal=The European Physical Journal A |volume=53 |issue=123 |page=123 |doi=10.1140/epja/i2017-12307-5|bibcode=2017EPJA...53..123H |s2cid=125886824 }}

In March 2022, Yuri Oganessian gave a seminar at the JINR considering how one could synthesise element 120 in the ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁴Cr reaction.{{cite web |url=http://www.jinr.ru/posts/at-seminar-on-synthesis-of-element-120/ |title=At seminar on synthesis of element 120 |author=JINR |date=29 March 2022 |website=jinr.ru |publisher=JINR |access-date=17 April 2022}} In 2023, the director of the JINR, Grigory Trubnikov, stated that he hoped that the experiments to synthesise element 120 will begin in 2025.{{cite news |last=Mayer |first=Anastasiya |date=31 May 2023 |lang=ru |title="Большинство наших партнеров гораздо мудрее политиков" |trans-title="Most of our partners are much wiser than politicians" |url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/characters/2023/05/31/977789-bolshinstvo-nashih-partnerov-mudree-politikov |work=Vedomosti |location= |access-date=15 August 2023 |quote=В этом году мы фактически завершаем подготовительную серию экспериментов по отладке всех режимов ускорителя и масс-спектрометров для синтеза 120-го элемента. Научились получать высокие интенсивности ускоренного хрома и титана. Научились детектировать сверхтяжелые одиночные атомы в реакциях с минимальным сечением. Теперь ждем, когда закончится наработка материала для мишени на реакторах и сепараторах у наших партнеров в «Росатоме» и в США: кюрий, берклий, калифорний. Надеюсь, что в 2025 г. мы полноценно приступим к синтезу 120-го элемента.}}

In August–October 2011, a different team at the GSI using the TASCA facility tried a new, even more asymmetrical reaction:{{cite web |last1=Düllmann |first1=C. E. |date=20 October 2011 |url=http://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7293741/superheavy-element-research-superheavy-element-research |title=Superheavy Element Research: News from GSI and Mainz |access-date=23 September 2016}}

:{{nuclide|Cf|249}} + {{nuclide|Ti|50}} → {{nuclide|Ubn|299}}* → no atoms

Because of its asymmetry,{{cite journal |last1=Siwek-Wilczyńska |first1=K. |last2=Cap |first2=T. |last3=Wilczyński |first3=J. |date=April 2010 |title=How can one synthesize the element Z = 120? |journal=International Journal of Modern Physics E |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=500 |doi=10.1142/S021830131001490X|bibcode=2010IJMPE..19..500S }} the reaction between ²⁴⁹Cf and ⁵⁰Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for synthesizing unbinilium, although it is also somewhat cold, and is further away from the neutron shell closure at N = 184 than any of the other three reactions attempted. No unbinilium atoms were identified, implying a limiting cross section of 200 fb.{{cite web |url=http://asrc.jaea.go.jp/soshiki/gr/chiba_gr/workshop3/&Yakushev.pdf |title=Superheavy Element Research at TASCA |last1=Yakushev |first1=A. |date=2012 |website=asrc.jaea.go.jp |access-date=23 September 2016}} Jens Volker Kratz predicted the actual maximum cross section for producing unbinilium by any of the four reactions ²³⁸U+⁶⁴Ni, ²⁴⁴Pu+⁵⁸Fe, ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁴Cr, or ²⁴⁹Cf+⁵⁰Ti to be around 0.1 fb;{{cite conference |last1=Kratz |first1=J. V. |date=5 September 2011 |title=The Impact of Superheavy Elements on the Chemical and Physical Sciences |url=http://tan11.jinr.ru/pdf/06_Sep/S_1/02_Kratz.pdf |conference=4th International Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of the Transactinide Elements |access-date=27 August 2013}} in comparison, the world record for the smallest cross section of a successful reaction was 30 fb for the reaction ²⁰⁹Bi(⁷⁰Zn,n)²⁷⁸Nh,{{sfn|Zagrebaev|Karpov|Greiner|2013}} and Kratz predicted a maximum cross section of 20 fb for producing ununennium. If these predictions are accurate, then synthesizing ununennium would be at the limits of current technology, and synthesizing unbinilium would require new methods.

This reaction was investigated again in April to September 2012 at the GSI. This experiment used a ²⁴⁹Bk target and a ⁵⁰Ti beam to produce element 119, but since ²⁴⁹Bk decays to ²⁴⁹Cf with a half-life of about 327 days, both elements 119 and 120 could be searched for simultaneously:

:{{nuclide|Bk|249}} + {{nuclide|Ti|50}} → {{nuclide|Uue|299}}* → no atoms

:{{nuclide|Cf|249}} + {{nuclide|Ti|50}} → {{nuclide|Ubn|299}}* → no atoms

Neither element 119 nor element 120 was observed. This implied a limiting cross section of 65 fb for producing element 119 in these reactions, and 200 fb for element 120.{{cite journal |last1=Khuyagbaatar |first1=J. |last2=Yakushev |first2=A. |last3=Düllmann |first3=Ch. E. |first4=D. |last4=Ackermann |first5=L.-L. |last5=Andersson |first6=M. |last6=Asai |first7=M. |last7=Block |first8=R. A. |last8=Boll |first9=H. |last9=Brand |first10=D. M. |last10=Cox |first11=M. |last11=Dasgupta |first12=X. |last12=Derkx |first13=A. |last13=Di Nitto |first14=K. |last14=Eberhardt |first15=J. |last15=Even |first16=M. |last16=Evers |first17=C. |last17=Fahlander |first18=U. |last18=Forsberg |first19=J. M. |last19=Gates |display-authors=3 |date=December 2020 |title=Search for elements 119 and 120 |url=https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/73027/2/khuyagbaatarym0812.pdf |journal=Physical Review C |volume=102 |issue=6 |page=064602 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevC.102.064602 |bibcode=2020PhRvC.102f4602K |hdl=1885/289860 |s2cid=229401931 |access-date=25 January 2021}}

In May 2021, the JINR announced plans to investigate the ²⁴⁹Cf+⁵⁰Ti reaction in their new facility.{{cite web |url=http://www.jinr.ru/posts/how-are-new-chemical-elements-born/ |title=How are new chemical elements born? |last1=Sokolova |first1=Svetlana |last2=Popeko |first2=Andrei |date=24 May 2021 |website=jinr.ru |publisher=JINR |access-date=4 November 2021 |quote=Previously, we worked mainly with calcium. This is element 20 in the Periodic Table. It was used to bombard the target. And the heaviest element that can be used to make a target is californium, 98. Accordingly, 98 + 20 is 118. That is, to get element 120, we need to proceed to the next particle. This is most likely titanium: 22 + 98 = 120.

There is still much work to adjust the system. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but if we can successfully conduct all the model experiments, then the first experiments on the synthesis of element 120 will probably start this year.}} The ²⁴⁹Cf target would have been produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States; the ⁵⁰Ti beam would be produced by the Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.{{cite web |url=https://en.unistra.fr/unistra-news/research/in-search-of-element-120-in-the-periodic-table-of-elements |title=In search of element 120 in the periodic table of elements |last=Riegert |first=Marion |date=19 July 2021 |website=en.unistra.fr |publisher=University of Strasbourg |access-date=20 February 2022}} However, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, collaboration between the JINR and other institutes completely ceased due to sanctions.{{cite news |last=Ahuja |first=Anjana |date=18 October 2023 |title=Even the periodic table must bow to the reality of war |url=https://www.ft.com/content/6b6b0afc-39b2-4955-af5a-d0ea6b4d8306 |work=Financial Times |location= |access-date=20 October 2023}} Thus, the JINR's plans have since shifted to the ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁴Cr reaction, where the target and projectile beam could both be made in Russia.{{cite news |url=http://www.jinr.ru/posts/v-lyar-oiyai-vpervye-v-mire-sintezirovan-livermorij-288/ |title=В ЛЯР ОИЯИ впервые в мире синтезирован ливерморий-288 |trans-title=Livermorium-288 was synthesized for the first time in the world at FLNR JINR |language=ru |date=23 October 2023 |publisher=Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |access-date=18 November 2023}}

Starting from 2022,{{cite journal |url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1896856 |title=The Status and Ambitions of the US Heavy Element Program |first1=J. |last1=Gates |first2=J. |last2=Pore |first3=H. |last3=Crawford |first4=D. |last4=Shaughnessy |first5=M. A. |last5=Stoyer |date=25 October 2022 |website=osti.gov |publisher= |access-date=13 November 2022 |doi=10.2172/1896856 |osti=1896856 |s2cid=253391052 |quote=}} plans began to be made to use the 88-inch cyclotron in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California, United States to attempt to make new elements using ⁵⁰Ti projectiles. The plan was to first test them on a plutonium target to create livermorium (element 116), which was successful in 2024. Thus, an attempt to make element 120 in the ²⁴⁹Cf+⁵⁰Ti reaction is now planned for 2025.{{cite news |last=Chapman |first=Kit |date=10 October 2023 |title=Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia |url=https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/berkeley-lab-to-lead-us-hunt-for-element-120-after-breakdown-of-collaboration-with-russia/4018207.article |work=Chemistry World |location= |access-date=20 October 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://physicalsciences.lbl.gov/2023/10/16/berkeley-lab-to-test-new-approach-to-making-superheavy-elements/ |title=Berkeley Lab to Test New Approach to Making Superheavy Elements |last=Biron |first=Lauren |date=16 October 2023 |website=lbl.gov |publisher=Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |access-date=20 October 2023 |quote=}}

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