Democratic Decay of Be-6 Exposed by Correlations
Journal article, 2012
The interaction of an E/A = 70-MeV Be-7 beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in Be-6 following neutron knockout reactions. The three-body decay of the ground and first excited states into the alpha + p + p exit channel were detected in the High Resolution Array. Precise three-body correlations extracted from the experimental data allowed us to obtain insight into the mechanism of the three-body democratic decay. The correlation data are in good agreement with a three-cluster-model calculation and thus validate this theoretical approach over a broad energy range.
particle
energy
Author
I. A. Egorova
R. J. Charity
L. V. Grigorenko
Z. Chajecki
D. Coupland
J. M. Elson
T. K. Ghosh
M. E. Howard
H. Iwasaki
M. Kilburn
J. Lee
W. G. Lynch
J. Manfredi
S. T. Marley
A. Sanetullaev
R. Shane
D. V. Shetty
L. G. Sobotka
M. B. Tsang
J. Winkelbauer
A. H. Wuosmaa
M. Youngs
Mikhail Zhukov
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Subatomic Physics
Physical Review Letters
0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)
Vol. 109 20 202502Subject Categories
Physical Sciences
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.202502