First Evidence for a Virtual B-18 Ground State
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-18-2010
Publication Source
Physics Letters B
Volume Number
683
Issue Number
2
First Page
129
Last Page
133
Publisher
Elsevier Science BV
ISSN
0370-2693
Abstract
The decay of the neutron unbound ground state of B-18 was studied for the first time through a single-proton knockout reaction from a 62 MeV/u C-19 beam. The decay energy spectrum was reconstructed from coincidence measurements between the emitted neutron and the B-17 fragment using the MoNA/Sweeper setup. An s-wave line shape was used to describe the experimental spectrum resulting in an upper limit for the scattering length of -50 fm which corresponds to a decay energy <10 keV. Observing an s-wave decay of B-18 provides an experimental verification that the ground state of C-19 includes a large s-wave component. The presence of this s-wave component shows that s-d mixing is still present in B-18 and that the s(1/2) orbital has not moved significantly below the d(5/2) orbital.
Recommended Citation
Published in: Physics Letters B, Volume 683, Issue 2, January 18, 2010, pages 129-133. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam. The final published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.016
