Beyond the neutron drip line: The unbound oxygen isotopes (25)O and (26)O

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2013-09-16Author
Wilson, Graham Wallace
Caesar, C.
Simonis, J.
Adachi, T.
Aksyutina, Y.
Alcantara, J.
Altstadt, S.
Alvarez-Pol, H.
Ashwood, N. I.
Aumann, T.
Avdeichikov, V.
Barr, M.
Beceiro, S.
Bemmerer, D.
Benlliure, J.
Bertulani, C. A.
Boretzky, K.
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American Physical Society
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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The very neutron-rich oxygen isotopes 25O and 26O are investigated experimentally and theoretically. The unbound states are populated in an experiment performed at the R3B-LAND setup at GSI via proton-knockout reactions from 26F and 27F at relativistic energies around 442 and 414 MeV/nucleon, respectively. From the kinematically complete measurement of the decay into 24O plus one or two neutrons, the 25O ground-state energy and width are determined, and upper limits for the 26O ground-state energy and lifetime are extracted. In addition, the results provide indications for an excited state in 26O at around 4 MeV. The experimental findings are compared to theoretical shell-model calculations based on chiral two- and three-nucleon (3N) forces, including for the first time residual 3N forces, which are shown to be amplified as valence neutrons are added.
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This is the publisher's version, and is also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.034313.
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Caesar, C. et al. (2013). "Beyond the neutron drip line: The unbound oxygen isotopes (25)O and (26)O." Physical Review C, 88(3):34313. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.034313.
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