Thursday, May 10, 2012

1205.2063 (O. M. Povoroznyk et al.)

Experimental evidence of the $^6$He level at $E^*$ = 18.3 MeV by the
$^4$He+$^3$H three-body reaction
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O. M. Povoroznyk, O. K. Gorpinich, O. O. Jachmenjov, H. V. Mokhnach, O. Ponkratenko, G. Mandaglio, F. Curciarello, V. De Leo, G. Fazio, G. Giardina
Measurements of the t-t and p-t coincidence events in the $^3$H ($\alpha$, ttp) reaction have been obtained at $E_\alpha$ incident energy of 67.2 MeV. Various appropriate angular configurations of detectors were chosen in order to observe the population of the $^6$He$^*$ state at around 18 MeV. Its contribution appears at the $E_{\rm tt}$ relative energy of 6.0 MeV by the analysis of bidimensional spectra. We found the formation of the $^6$He excited state at $E^* = 18.3 \pm 0.2$ MeV (with a $\Gamma$ width of 1.1 $\pm$ 0.3 MeV) by the decay into the t+t binary channel, since the threshold energy of the t+t channel is 12.31 MeV. In each analyzed bidimensional energy spectrum of ($E_{\rm t}$, $E_{\rm t}$) and ($E_{\rm p}$, $E_{\rm t}$) coincidence events resonance structures are present due to the formation of both $^6$He$^*$ and $^4$He$^*$ excited states. Our results on the $E^*$ and $\Gamma$ values regarding the $^6$He$^*$ level of about 18 MeV are compared with the results obtained by other reactions. Moreover, we also found new $\Gamma$ width values of 0.7 $\pm$ 0.3 and 0.8 $\pm$ 0.4 MeV for the 14.0 $\pm$ 0.4 and 16.1 $\pm$ 0.4 MeV $^6$He levels, respectively.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2063

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