Two-neutron sequential decay of O-24

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-25-2015

Publication Source

Physical Review C

Volume Number

92

Issue Number

5

First Page

51306

ISSN

0556-2813

Abstract

A two-neutron unbound excited state of O-24 was populated through a (d, d') reaction at 83.4 MeV/nucleon. A state at E = 715 +/- 110 (stat) +/- 45 (sys) keV with a width of Gamma < 2 MeV was observed above the two-neutron separation energy placing it at 7.65 +/- 0.2 MeV with respect to the ground state. Three-body correlations for the decay of O-24 -> O-22 + 2n show clear evidence of a sequential decay through an intermediate state in O-23. Neither a di-neutron nor phase-space model for the three-body breakup were able to describe these correlations.

Keywords

Array, Isotopes, Limits, Nuclear-stability, Sweeper Magnet

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