Speaker
Artemis Spyrou
(NSCL/MSU)
Description
A single-proton knockout reaction from a 53 MeV/u 17B beam was used to populate the ground state of 16Be. The decay of 16Be was reconstructed from the four-momentum vectors of the 14Be fragment and the two emitted neutrons using the MoNA/Sweeper setup. 16Be is bound with respect to the emission of one neutron and unbound to two-neutron emission. The dineutron character of the decay was evidenced by the small relative angle between the two neutrons and by the sharp relative 2n-energy. The 2n-analysis of the 16Be decay will be presented. Results on the 2n-separation energy will be compared to shell model calculations.
Primary author
Artemis Spyrou
(NSCL/MSU)
Co-authors
A. Volya
(Florida State University)
Collaboration MoNA
(MoNA)
M. Thoennessen
(NSCL/MSU)
Z. Kohley
(NSCL/MSU)
