Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2013
Publication Source
Acta Physica Polonica B
Volume Number
44
Issue Number
3
First Page
543
Last Page
552
Publisher
Jagiellonian University
ISSN
0587-4254
Abstract
Neutron decay spectroscopy has become a successful tool to explore nuclear properties of nuclei with the largest neutron-to-proton ratios. Resonances in nuclei located beyond the neutron dripline are accessible by kinematic reconstruction of the decay products. The development of two-neutron detection capabilities of the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) at NSCL has opened up the possibility to search for unbound nuclei which decay by the emission of two neutrons. Specifically, this exotic decay mode was observed in16Be and 26O.
Keywords
Neutron-Rich Nuclei, Oxygen Isotopes, Light-Nuclei, Shell-Model, Stability, Search, Energy, O-26
Recommended Citation
Thoennessen, M, Z Kholey, A Spyrou, E Lunderberg, Paul A. DeYoung, H Attanayake, T Baumann, D Bazin, B A. Brown, G Christian, D Divaratne, S M. Grimes, A Haagsma, J E. Finck, N Frank, B Luther, S Mosby, T Nagi, Graham F. Peaslee, W A. Peters, A Schiller, J K. Smith, J Snyder, M Strongman and A Volya. "Observation of Ground-State Two-Neutron Decay." Acta Physica Polonica B 44, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5506/APhysPolB.44.543
Comments
* Presented at the Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics “Extremes of the Nuclear Landscape”, Zakopane, Poland, August 27–September 2, 2012.