Abstract
Results of recent nuclear reaction studies on the /sup 209/Bi+/sup 56/Fe system are analyzed in order to investigate the cross sections for production of spontaneously fissioning species with 90 < or = Z < or = 100. This reaction is nearly identical to those used as the basis for identification of new elements with Z=104 --107, reported to be spontaneous fission emitters. Evidence is presented which indicates that actinide elements are formed with primary yields of the order of millibarns in strongly damped collisions of 464 MeV /sup 56/Fe with /sup 209/Bi. Although strongly depleted by fission competition, final yields of possible spontaneous fission activities /sup 240en-dash244/Am/sup f/, /sup 234en-dash238/Cf, and /sup 242en-dash246/Fm are calculated to be of the order of nanobarns. These results suggest that the spontaneous fission activities observed in similar reactions may be due at least in part to fission decay of actinide elements rather than elements with Z=104 --107.
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