element 115

Researchers there have already made 60 atoms of moscovium, element 115, by firing ion beams at a thin layer of target material.

Work from other teams, such as a Swedish group using a German accelerator, helped to confirm element 115's existence.

“The heavy nuclei makes an alpha decay to produce element 115, and this also decays by alpha decay,” says Jadambaa Khuyagbaatar of GSI, lead author of a paper reporting the results published May 1 in .

Researchers in Sweden have reported strong evidence for the formation of element 115, temporarily called ununpentium.

The Swedish research team was not the first to create element 115.