Predicting Narrow States in the Spectrum of a Nucleus beyond the Proton Drip Line

Journal Article · Fri Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2006 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.96.0· OSTI ID:20778649

Canton, L; Pisent, G ^[1]; Svenne, J P ^[2]; Amos, K; Karataglidis, S ^[3]

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1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, e Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Padova, via Marzolo 8, Padova I-35131 (Italy)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, and Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 (Canada)
3. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 (Australia)

Properties of particle-unstable nuclei lying beyond the proton drip line can be ascertained by considering the (usually known) properties of its mirror neutron-rich system. We have used a multichannel algebraic scattering theory to map the known properties of the neutron-{sup 14}C system to those of the proton-{sup 14}O one from which we deduce that the particle-unstable {sup 15}F will have a spectrum of two low-lying broad resonances of positive parity and, at higher excitation, three narrow negative-parity ones. A key feature is to use coupling to Pauli-hindered states in the target.

• OSTI ID: 20778649
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.072502; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CARBON 14
EXCITATION
FLUORINE 15
NEUTRONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
OXYGEN 14
PARITY
PROTONS
RESONANCE
SCATTERING