High resolution particle decay spectroscopy of nuclear states produced in heavy-ion reactions
Abstract
Optimum energy resolution has been pursued in the study of alpha-particle decay spectroscopy of selected 1p-shell nuclei. Counter telescopes with two-dimensional position sensitivity are used to identify three-body final state reactions which proceed by sequential binary decay. Heavy-ion beams of 3 to 8 MeV/u from the Florida State University Tandem/LINAC Accelerator Laboratory are used to initiate the reactions. Decay energy resolution of 5 keV has been observed for the reaction 12C( 12C, 8Be → 2α) 16O g.s. at a bombarding energy of 30.6 MeV.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0168-9002(95)01302-4
- Bibcode:
- 1996NIMPA.372..439F