To make element 116, researchers fused isotopes of titanium and plutonium.

An expanded periodic table shows where researchers expect elements 119 and 120 to be categorized if they are discovered.

Experts who worked to create element 116 using a titanium beam gather in the control room for the 88-Inch Cyclotron. From left to right: Brien Ninemire (Operations Supervisor), Janilee Benitez (ECR Ion Source Operations), Patrick Coleman (Cyclotron Operator-in-Training), Erich Leistenschneider (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group), Marilena Lykiardopoulou (Postdoc, Heavy Element Group), Nishi Intwala (Cyclotron Operator), Damon Todd (Accelerator Physicist), Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group), Rod Clark (Senior Staff Scientist, Nuclear Structure Group), Jenn Pore (Research Scientist, Heavy Element Group), Devin Thatcher (Cyclotron Operator), Emma Rice (Graduate Student, Nuclear Structure Group), Rodney Orford (Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, Heavy Element Group), Corrigan Appleton (Postdoc, Nuclear Structure Group).

Damon Todd and Janilee Benitez work on VENUS, the ion source where the titanium-50 beam is created.

Damon Todd holds the oven used to heat the titanium sample.

Scientist Jenn Pore at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator.

To make element 120, researchers want to fuse isotopes of titanium and californium.