Unbound states of 10C nuclei produced as quasi-projectiles in 12C+24Mg collisions at E/A = 53 and 95 MeV are studied with the Indra detector array. Multi-particle correlation function analyses provide experimental evidence of sequential de-excitation mechanisms through the production of intermediate 9B, 6Be and 8Be unbound nuclei. The relative contributions of different decay sequences to the total decay width of the explored states is estimated semi-quantitatively. The obtained results show that heavy-ion collisions can be used as a tool to access spectroscopic information about exotic nuclei.
@article{arxiv.0706.4414,
title = {Decay modes of $^{10}$C nuclei unbound state},
author = {F. Grenier and A. Chbihi and R. Roy and G. Verde and D. Thériault and J. D. Frankland and J. P. Wieleczko and B. Borderie and R. Bougault and R. Dayras and E. Galichet and D. Guinet and P. Lautesse and N. Le Neindre and O. Lopez and J. Moisan and L. Nalpas and M. Pârlog and M. F. Rivet and E. Rosato and B. Tamain and E. Vient and M. Vigilante},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4414},
year = {2007}
}
Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B