EPJ Web of Conferences (Mar 2014)

Evidence of tensor interactions in 16O observed via (p,d) reaction

  • Ong H. J.,
  • Tanihata I.,
  • Tamii A.,
  • Myo T.,
  • Ogata K.,
  • Fukuda M.,
  • Hirota K.,
  • Ikeda K.,
  • Ishikawa D.,
  • Kawabata T.,
  • Matsubara H.,
  • Matsuta K.,
  • Mihara M.,
  • Naito T.,
  • Nishimura D.,
  • Ogawa Y.,
  • Okamura H.,
  • Ozawa A.,
  • Pang D. Y.,
  • Sakaguchi H.,
  • Sekiguchi K.,
  • Suzuki T.,
  • Taniguchi M.,
  • Takashina M.,
  • Toki H.,
  • Yasuda Y.,
  • Yosoi M.,
  • Zenihiro J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146602076
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 66
p. 02076

Abstract

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We measured the differential cross sections of the 16O(p,d) reaction populating the ground state and several low-lying excited states in 15O using 198-, 295- and 392-MeV proton beams at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, to study the effect of the tensor interactions in 16O. Dividing the cross sections for each excited state by the one for the ground state and comparing the ratios over a wide range of momentum transfer, we found a marked enhancement of the ratio for the positive-parity state(s). The observation is consistent with large components of high-momentum neutrons in the ground-state configurations of 16O due possibly to the tensor interactions.