Wednesday, June 20, 2012

1206.4217 (F. D. Smit et al.)

No evidence of an 11.16 MeV 2+ state in 12C    [PDF]

F. D. Smit, F. Nemulodi, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, R. F. Fearick, S. V. Foertsch, M. Freer, H. Fujita, M. Jingo, C. O. Kureba, J. Mabiala, J. Mira, R. Neveling, P. Papka, G. F. Steyn, J. A. Swartz, I. T. Usman, J. J. van Zyl
An experiment using the 11B(3He,d)12C reaction was performed at iThemba LABS at an incident energy of 44 MeV and analyzed with a high energy-resolution magnetic spectrometer, to re-investigate states in 12C published in 1971. The original investigation reported the existence of an 11.16 MeV state in 12C that displays a 2+ nature. In the present experiment data were acquired at laboratory angles of 25-, 30- and 35- degrees, to be as close to the c.m. angles of the original measurements where the clearest signature of such a state was observed. These new low background measurements revealed no evidence of the previously reported state at 11.16 MeV in 12C.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4217

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