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Precise branching ratios to unbound 12C states from 12N and 12B β-decays

  • S. Hyldegaard
  • , C. Forssén
  • , C. Aa Diget
  • , M. Alcorta
  • , F. C. Barker
  • , B. Bastin
  • , M. J.G. Borge
  • , R. Boutami
  • , S. Brandenburg
  • , J. Büscher
  • , P. Dendooven
  • , P. Van Duppen
  • , T. Eronen
  • , S. Fox
  • , B. R. Fulton
  • , H. O.U. Fynbo*
  • , J. Huikari
  • , M. Huyse
  • , H. B. Jeppesen
  • , A. Jokinen
  • B. Jonson, K. Jungmann, A. Kankainen, O. Kirsebom, M. Madurga, I. Moore, P. Navrátil, T. Nilsson, G. Nyman, G. J.G. Onderwater, H. Penttilä, K. Peräjärvi, R. Raabe, K. Riisager, S. Rinta-Antila, A. Rogachevskiy, A. Saastamoinen, M. Sohani, O. Tengblad, E. Traykov, J. P. Vary, Y. Wang, K. Wilhelmsen, H. W. Wilschut, J. Äystö
*Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Two complementary experimental techniques have been used to extract precise branching ratios to unbound states in 12C from 12N and 12B β-decays. In the first the three α-particles emitted after β-decay are measured in coincidence in separate detectors, while in the second method 12N and 12B are implanted in a detector and the summed energy of the three α-particles is measured directly. For the narrow states at 7.654 MeV (0+) and 12.71 MeV (1+) the resulting branching ratios are both smaller than previous measurements by a factor of ≃2. The experimental results are compared to no-core shell model calculations with realistic interactions from chiral perturbation theory, and inclusion of three-nucleon forces is found to give improved agreement.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)459-464
    Number of pages6
    JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume678
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Aug 2009

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