An international team nuclear physicists at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany head by Mongolian scientist, member of The Council of Scientists of Nuclear Energy Authority, J.Khuyagbaatar has confirmed an existence of super-heavy element with atomic number Z=117.

The initial observation confirming the super-heavy element with atomic number Z=117 was published in 2010.

Nuclear physicists team produced two atoms of the super-heavy element with atomic number Z=117, making use of  an intense 48Ca beam and a target material of radioactive 249Bk confirming the existence of the element.

In the process, a new isotope 266Lr was discovered from the previously unknown alpha-decay branch of 270Db. With a half-life of 1 hour, 270Db is the longest-lived alpha emitter having an atomic number, Z, greater than 102.

Element 117 is yet to be named: a committee comprising members of the International Unions of Pure and Applied Physics and Chemistry will review these new findings, along with the original ones, and decide whether further experiments are needed before acknowledging the element's discovery. Only after such final acceptance, a name may be proposed by the discoverers.