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@article{Khuyagbaatar201448Ca249BkFR,
  title={48Ca+249Bk fusion reaction leading to element Z = 117: long-lived $\alpha$-decaying 270Db and discovery of 266Lr.},
  author={Jadambaa Khuyagbaatar and Alexander Yakushev and Christoph Emanuel D{\"u}llmann and D. Ackermann and L-L. Andersson and Masato Asai and M. Block and Rose A. Boll and Holger Brand and D. M. Cox and M. Dasgupta and X. Derkx and Antonio Di Nitto and Klaus Eberhardt and J. Even and M. Evers and C. Fahlander and U. Forsberg and Jacklyn M. Gates and Narek Gharibyan and Pavel Golubev and Kenneth E. Gregorich and J. H. Hamilton and Willi Hartmann and R-D. Herzberg and F. P. He{\ss}berger and D. J. Hinde and Jan Hoffmann and Ralph Hollinger and Annett H{\"u}bner and Egon J{\"a}ger and B. Kindler and Jens Volker Kratz and J{\"o}rg Krier and Nikolaus Kurz and Mustapha Laatiaoui and Susanta Lahiri and R. Lang and Bettina Lommel and M. Maiti and Krzysztof Miernik and S. Minami and A. K. Mistry and Ch. Mokry and Heino Nitsche and Jon Petter Omtvedt and Gregory K. Pang and Philippos Papadakis and Dennis Renisch and James B. Roberto and Dirk Rudolph and J{\"o}rg Runke and Krzysztof P. Rykaczewski and Luis G. Sarmiento and Matthias Sch{\"a}del and B. Schausten and A. G. Semchenkov and Dawn A Shaughnessy and Patrick Steinegger and J. Steiner and Evgeny E. Tereshatov and Petra Th{\"o}rle-Pospiech and Klaus Tinschert and T. Torres and De Heidenreich and Nils Trautmann and Andreas T{\"u}rler and Juha Uusitalo and David Ward and Maciej Węgrzecki and Norbert Wiehl and Shelley M. Van Cleve and Vera Yakusheva},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2014},
  volume={112 17},
  pages={
          172501
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5949620}
}

The superheavy element with atomic number Z=117 was produced as an evaporation residue in the (48)Ca+(249)Bk fusion reaction at the gas-filled recoil separator TASCA at GSI Darmstadt, Germany and a hitherto unknown α-decay branch in (270)Db was observed, which populated the new isotope (266)Lr.