1998Pf02: ²¹⁸Bi nuclide produced and identified in ⁹Be(²³⁸U,X) reaction at E(²³⁸U)=1 GeV/nucleon.

2004De16, 2004Fr14 (also 2004DeZV thesis): ²¹⁸Bi nuclide produced in spallation reaction with a 1.4-GeV proton beam on a uranium carbide target at ISOLDE facility.

2010Al24 (also 2009Al32): ²¹⁸Bi nuclide identified in ⁹Be(²³⁸U,X),E=1 GeV/nucleon, beam produced by the SIS synchrotron at GSI facility. The fragment residues were analyzed with the high resolving power magnetic spectrometer Fragment separator (FRS).

2012Be28: ²¹⁸Bi was produced in projectile fragmentation of ²³⁸U at 1 GeV/nucleon beam provided by the UNILAC-SIS accelerator at GSI with an intensity of 1.5×10⁹ ions/spill (a repetition of 3 s and an extraction time of 1 s), bombarding a ⁹Be target. Reaction products were separated and identified in the magnetic spectrometer Fragment Separator (FRS), and implanted in a composite DSSSD detector system comprising three layers, each with three DSSSD pads with 16x16 pixels. The DSSSD detectors were surrounded by the RISING γ-ray spectrometer array of 105 Ge crystals arranged in 15 clusters. Measured γ, βγ(t) in coincidence with implanted recoils. α total of 6678 implanted ²¹⁸Bi ions were detected.

2014Mo02, 2014Mo15: ²¹⁸Bi was produced in projectile fragmentation of 1 GeV/nucleon ²³⁸U beam from UNILAC-SIS accelerator at GSI, bombarding a ⁹Be target. The reaction products were separated and identified in the magnetic spectrometer Fragment Separator (FRS), based on Bρ-ΔE-Bρ scheme.

2017Ca12, 2016Ca25 (also 2014Ca23): ²¹⁸Bi produced in fragmentation of 1 GeV/nucleon ²³⁸U beam from SIS-18 synchrotron at GSI on a ⁹Be target of 1.6 g/cm² thickness. Reaction products were separated and identified by GSI Fragment Separator (FRS) using Bρ-ΔE-Bρ technique. The FRS tracking detectors were four time-projection chambers (TPCs), two ionization chambers, and thin plastic scintillators for tof measurement. Mass-over-charge (α/Q) ratios were measured for ions analyzed on an event-by-event basis. Finally selected ions of interest were implanted into a stack of double-sided silicon strip detectors SIMBA, which also detected β-decay events. Comparison with theoretical calculations using FRDM+QRPA, DF3⁺cQRPA KTUY and RHB+RQRPA models. (cQRPA=continuum quasi-random-phase approximation; FRDM=finite-range droplet model; DF3=density functional theory; RHB=relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov; RQRPA=relativistic QRPA; KTUV=Koura-Tachibana-Uno-Yamada model).

Mass measurement: 2012Ch19 (also 2008ChZI thesis)

Theory references: consult NSR database (www.nndc.bnl.gov/nsr/) for six primary references for calculations of half-lives of radioactive decays

Q-value: Estimated uncertainties (2017Wa10): 300 for S(p), 200 for Q(α)

Q-value: S(2n)=8801 29, S(2p)=16080 300 (syst) (2017Wa10)