Three-body correlations in Borromean halo nuclei

Summary, in English

Three-body correlations in the dissociation of two-neutron halo nuclei are explored using a technique based on intensity interferometry and Dalitz plots. This approach provides for the combined treatment of both the n-n and core-n interactions in the exit channel. As an example, the breakup of 14Be into 12Be+n+n by Pb and C targets has been analyzed and the halo n-n separation extracted. Evidence for a finite delay between the emission of the neutrons in the reaction on the C target was observed and is attributed to 13Be resonances populated in sequential breakup.

• Author: F M Marques; M Labiche; N A Orr; J C Angelique; L Axelsson; B Benoit; U C Bergmann; M J G Borge; W N Catford; S P G Chappell; N M Clarke; G Costa; N Curtis; A D'Arrigo; E De Goes Brennard; F de Oliveira; O Dorvaux; G Fazio; M Freer; B R Fulton; G Giardina; S Grévy; D Guillemaud-Mueller; F Hanappe; B Heusch; Björn Jonson; C Le Brun; S Leenhardt; M Lewitowicz; M J López; Karin Markenroth Bloch; A C Mueller; T Nilsson; A Ninane; G Nyman; I Piqueras; K Riisager; M G Saint Laurent; F Sarazin; S M Singer; O Sorlin; L Stuttge
• Publishing year: 2001
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-61301
• Publication/Series: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics)
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 6
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.64.061301
• Document type: Journal article review
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0556-2813