0000000001193239
AUTHOR
M. Yoshii
Discovery of New Fission Product Activities in the A=110–118 Mass Region
Neutron rich nuclei around the mass A=100 have recently attracted both theoretical and experimental interest since they are expected to form a new region of strong deformation. In contrary, very little experimental information is available in the adjacent transitional region A= 110–118. Due to expected isomerism in this region both low and high spin states can be studied via beta decay in many nuclei. The studies of these nuclides have many experimental difficulties. They are only weakly produced in thermal neutron induced fission and because all the elements in this mass region (Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd) have very high melting points they have not been available as beams of on-line isotope separator…
Separation of fission products by the ion guide fed isotope separator, IGISOL
Abstract The performance of the ion guide method in the on-line mass separation of fission products has been investigated. Activity was produced by bombarding nat. U targets with a beam of 20 MeV protons. All the mass chains from A = 95 through A = 120 have been scanned using conventional methods of nuclear spectroscopy. No chemical selectivity in the separation was observed; isotopes of highly nonvolatile elements from yttrium to palladium were produced with efficiencies equal to those for the more volatile ones. The boundary of known neutron-rich nuclides was reached throughout the mass region from A = 106 to A = 118. During the course of this preliminary study the new isotope 116 Rh was …
The ion-guide isotope separator on-line at the Tohoku University Cyclotron
Abstract The status of the ion-guide isotope separator on-line at the Tohoku University Cyclotron is reported. The optimum ion-guide parameters were determined from test experiments using atomic and molecular ions ionized with an electric discharge inside the target chamber as well as using 64 Ga(T 1 2 = 2.6 m ) ions produced by the 64Zn(p, n) reaction. Using the present system together with a ΔE−E plastic counter telescope and a germanium detector we identified 16 short-lived nuclei including the first mass-separated nuclei 57Cu and 45V. The efficiency of mass separation for 64Ga was ϵ ∼ 1%, where ϵ is defined as the number of atoms collected at the end of the separator divided by that rec…
Worldwide comparison of ovarian cancer survival: Histological group and stage at diagnosis (CONCORD-2)
Abstract Objective Ovarian cancer comprises several histological groups with widely differing levels of survival. We aimed to explore international variation in survival for each group to help interpret international differences in survival from all ovarian cancers combined. We also examined differences in stage-specific survival. Methods The CONCORD programme is the largest population-based study of global trends in cancer survival, including data from 60 countries for 695,932 women (aged 15–99years) diagnosed with ovarian cancer during 1995–2009. We defined six histological groups: type I epithelial, type II epithelial, germ cell, sex cord-stromal, other specific non-epithelial and non-sp…
Worldwide comparison of survival from childhood leukaemia for 1995–2009, by subtype, age, and sex (CONCORD-2): a population-based study of individual data for 89 828 children from 198 registries in 53 countries
BACKGROUND: Global inequalities in access to health care are reflected in differences in cancer survival. The CONCORD programme was designed to assess worldwide differences and trends in population-based cancer survival. In this population-based study, we aimed to estimate survival inequalities globally for several subtypes of childhood leukaemia. METHODS: Cancer registries participating in CONCORD were asked to submit tumour registrations for all children aged 0-14 years who were diagnosed with leukaemia between Jan 1, 1995, and Dec 31, 2009, and followed up until Dec 31, 2009. Haematological malignancies were defined by morphology codes in the International Classification of Diseases for …