First Observation of Unbound , the Mirror of the Halo Nucleus
Abstract
The structure of the extremely proton-rich nucleus , the mirror of the two-neutron halo nucleus , has been studied experimentally for the first time. Following two-neutron knockout reactions with a beam, the decay products were detected after two-proton emission and used to construct an invariant-mass spectrum. A broad peak of width was determined. Within the Gamow coupled-channel approach, it was concluded that this peak is a multiplet with contributions from the four lowest resonant states: , , , and . The widths and configurations of these states show strong, nonmonotonic dependencies on the depth of the - potential. This unusual behavior is due to the presence of a broad threshold resonant state in , which is an analog of the virtual state in in the presence of the Coulomb potential. After optimizing the model to the data, only a moderate isospin asymmetry between ground states of and was discovered.
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- Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo MI (United States)
- Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo MI (United States); Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Krell Institute, Ames, IA (United States); Texas A & M Univ., Commerce, TX (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA): National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1609529
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- OSTI ID: 1504529
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- FG02-04ER41320; FG02-87ER40316; NA0002135; SC0009971; SC0013365; SC0014552; SC0018083; PHY-156556
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; physics; lifetimes & widths; nuclear structure & decays; proton emission; rare & new isotopes; 6 ≤ A ≤ 19
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Webb, T. B., Wang, S. M., Brown, K. W., Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Chajecki, Z., Estee, J., Hoff, D. E. M., Kuvin, S. A., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., McNeel, D., Morfouace, P., Nazarewicz, W., Pruitt, C. D., Santamaria, C., Smith, J., Sobotka, L. G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Wuosmaa, A. H., Zhang, Y., and Zhu, K. First Observation of Unbound O11, the Mirror of the Halo Nucleus Li11. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.122501.
Webb, T. B., Wang, S. M., Brown, K. W., Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Chajecki, Z., Estee, J., Hoff, D. E. M., Kuvin, S. A., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., McNeel, D., Morfouace, P., Nazarewicz, W., Pruitt, C. D., Santamaria, C., Smith, J., Sobotka, L. G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Wuosmaa, A. H., Zhang, Y., & Zhu, K. First Observation of Unbound O11, the Mirror of the Halo Nucleus Li11. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.122501
Webb, T. B., Wang, S. M., Brown, K. W., Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Chajecki, Z., Estee, J., Hoff, D. E. M., Kuvin, S. A., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., McNeel, D., Morfouace, P., Nazarewicz, W., Pruitt, C. D., Santamaria, C., Smith, J., Sobotka, L. G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Wuosmaa, A. H., Zhang, Y., and Zhu, K. Fri .
"First Observation of Unbound O11, the Mirror of the Halo Nucleus Li11". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.122501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1609529.
@article{osti_1609529,
title = {First Observation of Unbound O11, the Mirror of the Halo Nucleus Li11},
author = {Webb, T. B. and Wang, S. M. and Brown, K. W. and Charity, R. J. and Elson, J. M. and Barney, J. and Cerizza, G. and Chajecki, Z. and Estee, J. and Hoff, D. E. M. and Kuvin, S. A. and Lynch, W. G. and Manfredi, J. and McNeel, D. and Morfouace, P. and Nazarewicz, W. and Pruitt, C. D. and Santamaria, C. and Smith, J. and Sobotka, L. G. and Sweany, S. and Tsang, C. Y. and Tsang, M. B. and Wuosmaa, A. H. and Zhang, Y. and Zhu, K.},
abstractNote = {The structure of the extremely proton-rich nucleus O8113, the mirror of the two-neutron halo nucleus Li3118, has been studied experimentally for the first time. Following two-neutron knockout reactions with a O13 beam, the O11 decay products were detected after two-proton emission and used to construct an invariant-mass spectrum. A broad peak of width ~3.4MeV was determined. Within the Gamow coupled-channel approach, it was concluded that this peak is a multiplet with contributions from the four lowest O11 resonant states: Jπ=3/21-, 3/22-, 5/21+, and 5/22+. The widths and configurations of these states show strong, nonmonotonic dependencies on the depth of the p-C9 potential. This unusual behavior is due to the presence of a broad threshold resonant state in N10, which is an analog of the virtual state in Li10 in the presence of the Coulomb potential. After optimizing the model to the data, only a moderate isospin asymmetry between ground states of O11 and Li11 was discovered.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.122.122501},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 12,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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