How do experimental physicists know the decay path of transuranium elements ahead of time?
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I have been watching (and enjoying) Dr. Poliakoff's YouTube videos on the synthesis of transuranium elements like Roentgenium and Copernicium, which decay so quickly that they are identified (if I understand correctly) by their decay products.
As these elements have not been observed outside our laboratories, how do we know ahead of time that the newly-synthesized element will have a specific decay process, which yields expected decay products that can be matched up with the observed decay products seen in the lab
As these elements have not been observed outside our laboratories, how do we know ahead of time that the newly-synthesized element will have a specific decay process, which yields expected decay products that can be matched up with the observed decay products seen in the lab
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