Halo Nucleus 11Be: A Spectroscopic Study via Neutron Transfer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
- ORNL
- Louisiana State University
- University of Surrey, UK
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden
- Rutgers University
- Tennessee Technological University
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
- Michigan State University, East Lansing
The best examples of halo nuclei, exotic systems with a diffuse nuclear cloud surrounding a tightly bound core, are found in the light, neutron-rich region, where the halo neutrons experience only weak binding and a weak, or no, potential barrier. Modern direct-reaction measurement techniques provide powerful probes of the structure of exotic nuclei. Despite more than four decades of these studies on the benchmark one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be, the spectroscopic factors for the two bound states remain poorly constrained. In the present work, the 10Be d;p reaction has been used in inverse kinematics at four beam energies to study the structure of 11Be. The spectroscopic factors extracted using the adiabatic model were found to be consistent across the four measurements and were largely insensitive to the optical potential used. The extracted spectroscopic factor for a neutron in an n j 2s1=2 state coupled to the ground state of 10Be is 0.71(5). For the first excited state at 0.32 MeV, a spectroscopic factor of 0.62(4) is found for the halo neutron in a 1p1=2 state.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1048745
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 19; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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