High-resolution measurement of absolute α-decay widths in 16O

Carl Wheldon, Nicholas Ashwood, Matthew Barr, Neil Curtis, Martin Freer, T.Z. Kokalova, Jonathan Malcolm, Simeon Spencer, Victor Ziman, Thomas Faestermann, Reiner Krücken, Hans-Friedrich Wirth, Ralf Hertenberger, Rudi Lutter, Andy Bergmaier

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Abstract

By using a large-acceptance position-sensitive silicon detector array in coincidence with the high-resolution Munich Q3D spectrograph, unambiguous measurements have been made of the absolute α-particle decay widths from excited states in O16* in the energy range 13.85 to 15.87 MeV. Carbon targets have been bombarded with 42-MeV Li6 beams to induce 612C(36Li, d)816O* reactions. The deuteron ejectiles were measured in the Q3D and the results gated by He4+C12 breakup products detected in the silicon array, the efficiency of which was modeled using Monte Carlo simulations.

© 2011 American Physical Society.
Original languageEnglish
Article number064324
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume83
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jun 2011

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