Search for 28Si cluster states through the 12C+16O radiative capture

The 12C+16O resonant radiative capture reaction has been studied at 5 bombarding energies around the Coulomb barrier, between Elab = 15.4 and 21.4 MeV. These experiments have been performed at the TRIUMF laboratory (Vancouver, Canada) using the Dragon 0° spectrometer and the associated BGO array. The most remarkable result is the previously unobserved decay path through 28Si doorway states of energies around 12 MeV leading to the measurement of new capture cross-sections. The feeding of specific, deformed states in 28Si from the resonances is discussed, as well as the selective feeding of 1+ T=1 states around 11 MeV.