41 research outputs found
Crossing the Dripline to 11N Using Elastic Resonance Scattering
The level structure of the unbound nucleus 11N has been studied by 10C+p
elastic resonance scattering in inverse geometry with the LISE3 spectrometer at
GANIL, using a 10C beam with an energy of 9.0 MeV/u. An additional measurement
was done at the A1200 spectrometer at MSU. The excitation function above the
10C+p threshold has been determined up to 5 MeV. A potential-model analysis
revealed three resonance states at energies 1.27 (+0.18-0.05) MeV (Gamma=1.44
+-0.2 MeV), 2.01(+0.15-0.05) MeV, (Gamma=0.84 +-$0.2 MeV) and 3.75(+-0.05) MeV,
(Gamma=0.60 +-0.05 MeV) with the spin-parity assignments I(pi) =1/2+, 1/2- and
5/2+, respectively. Hence, 11N is shown to have a ground state parity inversion
completely analogous to its mirror partner, 11Be. A narrow resonance in the
excitation function at 4.33 (+-0.05) MeV was also observed and assigned
spin-parity 3/2-.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, twocolumn Accepted for publication in PR
An above-barrier narrow resonance in <sup>15</sup>F
Intense and purified radioactive beam of post-accelerated O was used
to study the low-lying states in the unbound F nucleus. Exploiting
resonant elastic scattering in inverse kinematics with a thick target, the
second excited state, a resonance at E=4.757(6)(10)~MeV with a width of
=36(5)(14)~keV was measured for the first time with high precision. The
structure of this narrow above-barrier state in a nucleus located two neutrons
beyond the proton drip line was investigated using the Gamow Shell Model in the
coupled channel representation with a C core and three valence protons.
It is found that it is an almost pure wave function of two quasi-bound protons
in the shell.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Submitted to Phys. Lett.
A collective coupled-channel model and mirror state energy displacements
© 2015, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The spectra of nucleon-nucleus mirror systems allow examination of charge symmetry breaking in nucleon-nucleus interactions. To date, such examination has been performed with studies using microscopic models of structure. Herein we seek characterisation with a coupled-channel model in which the nucleon-nucleus interactions are described using a collective model prescription with the Pauli principle taken into account. The neutron-nucleus Hamiltonian is chosen to give the best match to the compound system spectrum, with emphasis on finding the correct ground state energy relative to the neutron-nucleus threshold. The Coulomb interactions for the proton-nucleus partner of a mirror pair are determined using charge distributions that match the root-mean-square charge radii of the nuclei in question. With the Coulomb interaction so defined modifying the neutron-nucleus Hamiltonian, we then predict a spectrum for the relevant proton-nucleus compound. Discrepancies in that resulting spectrum with measured values we tentatively ascribe to charge-symmetry breaking effects. We consider spectra obtained in this way for the mirror pairs <sup>13</sup>C and <sup>13</sup>N, <sup>15</sup>C and <sup>15</sup>F, and <sup>15</sup>O and <sup>15</sup>N, all to ~ 10 MeV excitation