The spectroscopy of neutron-rich 35P and 37P

In the last decade there has been an increasing interest in using deep-inelastic processes to populate and study neutron-rich nuclei. With thick target measurements, use of this reaction has led to the requirement of a high efficiency Ge gamma detector array in order to carry out high fold coincidence measurements to resolve the γ-ray cascades of the many final nuclei produced, particularly since many of them are produced with low cross-sections. An alternative approach to studying such nuclei via this reaction has been to use a magnetic spectrometer in conjunction with a high efficiency Ge detector array enabling the projectile/target-like fragments to be detected in coincidence with their associated γ-ray, thus overcoming some of the problems in identifying the origin of the emitted γ-ray, particularly in cases where there have been no previously observed γ-ray transitions. In this report are presented the results obtained using such a method in the study of neutron-rich P isotopes