Abstract
Neutron-transfer reactions with fast secondary beams of , and have been studied with the HiRA and CAESAR arrays. Excited states of , and in the continuum have been identified using invariant-mass spectroscopy. The best experimental resolution of these states is achieved by selecting events where the decay fragments are emitted transverse to the beam direction. We have confirmed a number of spin assignments made in previous works for the negative-parity states of . In addition we have found new higher-lying excited states in and , some of which fission into two ground-state fragments. Finally for , a new excited state was observed. These transfer reactions were found to leave the remnant of the target nuclei at very high excitation energies and may be associated with the pickup of a deeply bound neutron.
11 More- Received 2 October 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.044304
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