Large spin alignment of the unbound He-5 fragment after fragmentation of 240 MeV/nucleon He-6
Journal article, 1997

Peripheral fragmentation of a 240 MeV/nucleon beam of the halo nucleus He-6 incident on carbon target has been studied in a kinematically complete experiment. It is found that one-neutron stripping to the unbound nucleus He-5 is the dominant fragmentation mechanism and that it leads to a spin alignment of He-5 in a plane perpendicular to the He-5 momentum vector. This is expected to be a common feature for all neutron halo nuclei.

nuclei

projectile fragmentation

polarization

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Author

L. V. Chulkov

T. Aumann

D. Aleksandrov

Leif Axelsson

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

T. Baumann

M. J. G. Borge

R. Collatz

J. Cub

W. Dostal

B. Eberlein

T. W. Elze

H. Emling

H. Geissel

V. Z. Goldberg

M. Golovkov

A. Grunschloss

M. Hellstrom

J. Holeczek

R. Holzmann

Björn Jonson

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

A. A. Korsheninnikov

J. V. Kratz

G. Kraus

R. Kulessa

Y. Leifels

A. Leistenschneider

T. Leth

I. Mukha

G. Munzenberg

F. Nickel

Thomas Nilsson

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

Göran Hugo Nyman

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

B. Peterson

M. Pfutzner

A. Richter

K. Riisager

C. Scheidenberger

G. Schrieder

W. Schwab

H. Simon

Martin Smedberg

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

M. Steiner

J. Stroth

A. Surowiec

T. Suzuki

Olof Tengblad

Chalmers, Department of Experimental Physics, Subatomic Physics

Physical Review Letters

0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)

Vol. 79 2 201-204

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Subatomic Physics

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