Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2015

Department 1

Physics

Abstract

A two-neutron unbound excited state of 24O 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 < 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 24O → 22O + 2n show clear evidence of a sequential decay through an intermediate state in 23O. Neither a di-neutron nor phase-space model for the three-body breakup were able to describe these correlations.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.92.051306

Required Publisher's Statement

Original version is available from the publisher at: http://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.92.051306

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