Laboratories
GARIS Team
Koji MORIMOTO
Laboratory Head
Koji MORIMOTO (D.Sci.)
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Research Areas

Development and maintenance of devices related to study of the superheavy elements.

Research Subject

  1. Maintenance and development of a recoil separator.
  2. Development of detectors for superheavy element research.
  3. Development of rapid chemistry devices.

Related links

  1. RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Website_Laboratories PageNew Window

List of Selected Publications

  1. Kaji, D., Morimoto, K., Sato, N. Ichikawa, T., Ideguchi, E., Ozeki, K., Haba, H., Koura, H., Kudou, Y., Ozawa, A., Sumita, T., Yamaguchi, T., Yoneda, A., Yoshida, A.,and Morita, K.:
    "Production and Decay Properties of 263Hs."
    Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 78, 035003(2009).
  2. Kaji, D., Morimoto, K., Yoneda, A. Hasebe, H., Yoshida, A., Goto. S., Kudo, H.,and Morita, K.:
    "Target for the heaviest element production at RIKEN."
    Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 590 (198) (2008).
  3. Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Akiyama, T., Goto, S., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kikunaga, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Sato, N., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Tokanai, F., Yamaguchi, T., Yoneda, A., and Yoshida, A.:
    "Observation of Second Decay Chain from 278113."
    Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 76, 045001(2007).
  4. Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Akiyama, T., Goto, S., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Tokanai, F., Yamaguchi, T., Yoneda, A., and Yoshida, A.:
    "Experiment on Synthesis of an Isotope 277112 by 208Pb + 70Zn Reaction."
    Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 76, 043201(2007).
  5. Haba, H., Kaji, D., Kikunaga, H., Akiyama, T., Sato, N., Morimoto, K., Yoneda, A., Morita, K., Takabe, T., and Shinohara, A.:
    "Development of Gas-jet Transport System Coupled to the RIKEN Gas-filled Recoil Ion Separator GARIS for Superheavy Element Chemistry."
    J. Nucl. Radiochem. Sci. 8, 55-58 (2007).
  6. Haba, T., Akiyama, D., Kaji, H., Kikunaga, T., Kuribayashi, K., Morimoto, K., Morita, K., Ooe, N., Sato, A., Shinohara, T., Takabe, Y., Tashiro, A., Toyoshima, A., Yoneda., and Yoshimura, T.:
    "Startup of Superheavy Element Chemistry at RIKEN."
    Eur. Phys. J. D 45 81-86 (2007).
  7. Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Akiyama, T., Goto, S., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Kanungo, R., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Xu, H., Yamaguchi, T., Yoneda, A., Yoshida, A., and Zhao, Y.-L.:
    " Experiment on the Synthesis of Element 113 in the Reaction 209Bi(70Zn,n)278113."
    Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 73, 2593-2596(2004).
  8. Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Peter, J. C., Kanungo, R., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Tanihata, I., Xu, H., Yeremin, A. V., Yoneda, A., Yoshida, A., Zhao, Y.-L., Zheng, T., Goto, S., and Tokanai, F.:
    "Production and Decay Properties of 272111 and its Daughter Nuclei."
    Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 73, 1738-1744 (2004).
  9. Morita, K., Morimoto, K., Kaji, D., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Kanungo, R., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Tanihata, I., Xu, H., Yeremin, A. V., Yoneda, A., Yoshida, A., Zhao, Y.-L., and Zheng, T.:
    "Production and decay of the isotope 271Ds (Z = 110)."
    European Physical Journal, A21, 257-263(2004).
  10. Morimoto, K., Morita, K., Kaji, D., Goto, S., Haba, H., Ideguchi, E., Kanungo, R., Katori, K., Koura, H., Kudo, H., Ohnishi, T., Ozawa, A., Peter, JC., Suda, T., Sueki, K., Tanihata, I., Tokanai, F., Xu, H., Yeremin, AV., Yoneda, A., Yoshida, A., Zhao, TL., Zheng, T.:
    "Status of super heavy element research using GARIS at RIKEN."
    Nuclear Physics A, 738, 129(2004).

Members

Principal Investigator

Kouji MORIMOTO
Laboratory Head

Staff Scientist

Daiya KAJI
Nishina Center Research Scientist
Akira YONEDA
Nishina Center Technical Scientist