Published February 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Breakup reaction studies of 10Be and 10,11B using a 10Be beam

  • 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, ISMRA and Universite de Caen, IN2P3-CNRS, 14050 Caen Cedex (France)
  • 3. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Case Pastale 226, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
  • 4. School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Institut de Physique, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  • 6. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)

Description

The structure of 10Be has been investigated by inelastic scattering to states above the breakup threshold using the reaction 12C(10Be,10Be*→6He+4He)12C at Ebeam=302 MeV. Excited states in 10Be were observed at 9.6±0.1 and 10.2±0.1 MeV. No evidence was observed for the population of the 4+ member of the ground-state band of 10Be indicating the shell-model-like structure of the ground state. In addition, the decay of 8Be, 10B, and 11B, populated in the two-neutron, proton pickup, breakup and 1p pickup reactions, was reconstructed through the detection of coincident 4He+4He, 4He+6Li, and 4He+7Li particles. Cross sections for the formation of the 8Be, 9Be, 10B, and 11B were also deduced. Contrary to expectations, the two-neutron removal results in the production of 8Be predominantly (80%) in the first excited (2+) state. This suggests that dynamical excitations play an important role in the neutron removal process

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 024303-024303.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society