beam from the UNILAC collides with a lead nucleus in the target – a very rare event. Of these few events, in most cases the projectile and target nucleus separate again after exchanging a few nucleons, [...] elements 104 through 106, we gradually worked upward to the new elements 107, 108 and 109 using targets of lead and bismuth. The projectiles available were isotopes of titanium through to iron. As a c [...] SHIP side we increased the reliability, transmission and detection sensitivity by building a new target wheel, making changes to the separator and developing a new detector system including detection