Physics Letters B (Apr 2015)

Different mechanism of two-proton emission from proton-rich nuclei 23Al and 22Mg

  • Y.G. Ma,
  • D.Q. Fang,
  • X.Y. Sun,
  • P. Zhou,
  • Y. Togano,
  • N. Aoi,
  • H. Baba,
  • X.Z. Cai,
  • X.G. Cao,
  • J.G. Chen,
  • Y. Fu,
  • W. Guo,
  • Y. Hara,
  • T. Honda,
  • Z.G. Hu,
  • K. Ieki,
  • Y. Ishibashi,
  • Y. Ito,
  • N. Iwasa,
  • S. Kanno,
  • T. Kawabata,
  • H. Kimura,
  • Y. Kondo,
  • K. Kurita,
  • M. Kurokawa,
  • T. Moriguchi,
  • H. Murakami,
  • H. Ooishi,
  • K. Okada,
  • S. Ota,
  • A. Ozawa,
  • H. Sakurai,
  • S. Shimoura,
  • R. Shioda,
  • E. Takeshita,
  • S. Takeuchi,
  • W.D. Tian,
  • H.W. Wang,
  • J.S. Wang,
  • M. Wang,
  • K. Yamada,
  • Y. Yamada,
  • Y. Yasuda,
  • K. Yoneda,
  • G.Q. Zhang,
  • T. Motobayashi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 743
pp. 306 – 309

Abstract

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Two-proton relative momentum (qpp) and opening angle (θpp) distributions from the three-body decay of two excited proton-rich nuclei, namely Al23→p+p+Na21 and Mg22→p+p+Ne20, have been measured with the projectile fragment separator (RIPS) at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory. An evident peak at qpp∼20 MeV/c as well as a peak in θpp around 30° are seen in the two-proton break-up channel from a highly-excited 22Mg. In contrast, such peaks are absent for the 23Al case. It is concluded that the two-proton emission mechanism of excited 22Mg is quite different from the 23Al case, with the former having a favorable diproton emission component at a highly excited state and the latter dominated by the sequential decay process.