Abstract
We measured upper limits for the production of superheavy elements from the compound nucleus reaction /sup 48/Ca+/sup 254/Es. This combination permits the closest approach to the predicted island of stability at the 184 closed-neutron shell of any practical fusion reaction. We used aqueous and gas-phase separations to isolate superheavy element fractions within an hour from the end of the bombardments. In these experiments we did not observe superheavy elements above a limit of 3 x 10/sup -31/ cm/sup 2/ for spontaneous-fission half-lives from fractions of a day to a few months.
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