Detection of neutron clusters
Marques, F.M. ; Labiche, M. ; Orr, N.A. and Markenroth Bloch, Karin LU
(2002)
In Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics)
65(4).
- Abstract
- A new approach to the production and detection of bound neutron clusters is presented. The technique is based on the breakup of beams of very neutron-rich nuclei and the subsequent detection of the recoiling proton in a liquid scintillator. The method has been tested in the breakup of intermediate energy (30–50 MeV/nucleon) 11Li, 14Be, and 15B beams. Some six events were observed that exhibit the characteristics of a multineutron cluster liberated in the breakup of 14Be, most probably in the channel 10Be+4n. The various backgrounds that may mimic such a signal are discussed in detail.
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- author
- Marques, F.M.
; Labiche, M.
; Orr, N.A.
and Markenroth Bloch, Karin
LU
- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- in
- Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics)
- volume
- 65
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 44006
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:0346173835
- ISSN
- 0556-2813
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevC.65.044006
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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