Production of superheavy elements at GANIL.

A long-term new experimental program has begun at GANIL, i.e. search for new super heavy nuclei and their structure. The first part consists in studying the structure of the [sup 273]110 isotope which involves the development of high intensity Se beam. In parallel, reactions involving Inverse Kinematics will be studied allowing to have a versatileness set-up. By adding germanium and electron detectors, spectroscopic studies could be made on trans-fermium elements. Preliminary results showed that the Wien Filter has a suppression of the incident beam with a 10[sup 10] factor, which is comparable with results elsewhere. We show recent results with the present set-up at GANIL in producing Fr isotopes in the Kr + Sb reaction. We present also the result of our Kr + Pb experiment, which tried to reproduce the Berkeley result of the element 118. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]