Reply to “Comment on ‘Neutron knockout of 12Be populating neutron-unbound states in 11Be’ ”

W. A. Peters, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, K. L. Jones, J.-L. Lecouey, B. Luther, G. F. Peaslee, W. F. Rogers, M. Thoennessen, and J. A. Tostevin
Phys. Rev. C 86, 019802 – Published 6 July 2012

Abstract

In the preceding Comment, Fortune argues that, in our original paper [Peters et al., Phys. Rev. C 83, 057304 (2011)], we did not or could not separate the two neutron-unbound states in 11Be near 4 MeV. However, including the suggested contribution of the 3.887-MeV state decaying via 18 keV to the 2+ state in 10Be does not fit the data; neither do any other attempts incorporating any contribution of this decay channel. The best fit was achieved with a single resonance of decay energy 80(2) keV.

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  • Received 6 December 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.86.019802

©2012 American Physical Society

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W. A. Peters1,2,*, T. Baumann2, B. A. Brown1,2, J. Brown3, P. A. DeYoung4, J. E. Finck5, N. Frank1,2,†, K. L. Jones6,‡, J.-L. Lecouey2,§, B. Luther7, G. F. Peaslee4, W. F. Rogers8, M. Thoennessen1,2, and J. A. Tostevin9

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
  • 2National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA
  • 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
  • 7Department of Physics, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota 56562, USA
  • 8Department of Physics, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California 93108, USA
  • 9Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU27XH, United Kingdom

  • *Present address: Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831; wapeters@nuclearemail.org
  • Present address: Department of Physics, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois 61201.
  • Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996.
  • §Present address: Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, ENSICAEN IN2P3, 14050 Caen, Cedex, France.

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Original Article

Neutron knockout of Be12 populating neutron-unbound states in Be11

W. A. Peters, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, K. L. Jones, J.-L. Lecouey, B. Luther, G. F. Peaslee, W. F. Rogers, A. Schiller, M. Thoennessen, J. A. Tostevin, and K. Yoneda
Phys. Rev. C 83, 057304 (2011)

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