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The information available to physicists aiming to synthesize a superheavy element is thus the information collected at the detectors: ___location, energy, and time of arrival of a particle to the detector, and those of its decay. The physicists analyze this data and seek to conclude that it was indeed caused by a new element and could not have been caused by a different nuclide than the one claimed. Often, provided data is insufficient for a conclusion that a new element was definitely created and there is no other explanation for the observed effects; errors in interpreting data have been made.{{Efn|For instance, element 102 was mistakenly identified in 1957 at the Nobel Institute of Physics in [[Stockholm]], [[Stockholm County]], [[Sweden]].<ref name=RSC>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/102/nobelium|title=Nobelium - Element information, properties and uses {{!}} Periodic Table|website=[[Royal Society of Chemistry]]|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref> There were no earlier definitive claims of creation of this element, and the element was assigned a name by its Swedish, American, and British discoverers, ''nobelium''. It was later shown that the identification was incorrect.{{sfn|Kragh|2018|pp=38–39}} The following year, RL was unable to reproduce the Swedish results and announced instead their synthesis of the element; that claim was also disproved later.{{sfn|Kragh|2018|pp=38–39}} JINR insisted that they were the first to create the element and suggested a name of their own for the new element, ''joilotium'';{{sfn|Kragh|2018|p=40}} the Soviet name was also not accepted (JINR later referred to the naming of element 102 as "hasty").<ref name="1993 responses"/> The name "nobelium" remained unchanged on account of its widespread usage.<ref name=IUPAC97/>}}
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