Physics Letters B (Jan 2023)

Unbound states in 17C and p-sd shell-model interactions

  • S. Kim,
  • J.W. Hwang,
  • Y. Satou,
  • N.A. Orr,
  • T. Nakamura,
  • Y. Kondo,
  • J. Gibelin,
  • N.L. Achouri,
  • T. Aumann,
  • H. Baba,
  • F. Delaunay,
  • P. Doornenbal,
  • N. Fukuda,
  • N. Inabe,
  • T. Isobe,
  • D. Kameda,
  • D. Kanno,
  • N. Kobayashi,
  • T. Kobayashi,
  • T. Kubo,
  • S. Leblond,
  • J. Lee,
  • F.M. Marqués,
  • R. Minakata,
  • T. Motobayashi,
  • D. Murai,
  • T. Murakami,
  • K. Muto,
  • T. Nakashima,
  • N. Nakatsuka,
  • A. Navin,
  • S. Nishi,
  • S. Ogoshi,
  • H. Otsu,
  • H. Sato,
  • Y. Shimizu,
  • H. Suzuki,
  • K. Takahashi,
  • H. Takeda,
  • S. Takeuchi,
  • R. Tanaka,
  • Y. Togano,
  • A.G. Tuff,
  • M. Vandebrouck,
  • K. Yoneda

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 836
p. 137629

Abstract

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Unbound states in C17 were investigated via one-neutron removal from a C18 beam at an energy of 245 MeV/nucleon on a carbon target. The energy spectrum of C17, above the single-neutron decay threshold, was reconstructed using invariant mass spectroscopy from the measured momenta of the C16 fragment and neutron, and was found to exhibit resonances at Er=0.52(2), 0.77(2), 1.36(1), 1.91(1), 2.22(3) and 3.20(1) MeV. The resonance at Er=0.77(2) MeV [Ex=1.51(3) MeV] was provisionally assigned as the second 5/2+ state. The two resonances at Er=1.91(1) and 3.20(1) MeV [Ex=2.65(2) and 3.94(2) MeV] were identified, through comparison of the energies, cross sections and momentum distributions with shell-model and eikonal reaction calculations, as p-shell hole states with spin-parities 1/21− and 3/21−, respectively. A detailed comparison was made with the results obtained using a range of shell-model interactions. The YSOX shell-model Hamiltonian, the cross-shell part of which is based on the monopole-based universal interaction, was found to provide a very good description of the present results and those for the neighbouring odd-A carbon isotopes – in particular for the negative parity cross-shell states.

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