The 16O nucleus was investigated through the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction at excitation energies from Ex = 12 231 to 15 700 keV using proton beams from a 5 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator at beam energies of Ep = 331 to 3800 keV. Alpha decay from resonant states in 16O was strongly observed for ten known excited states in this region. The candidate 4-alpha cluster state at Ex = 15.1 MeV was investigated particularly intensely in order to understand its particle decay channels.
@article{arxiv.1810.07053,
title = {Investigating 16O with the 15N(p,{\alpha})12C reaction},
author = {J. A. Swartz and H. O. U. Fynbo and K. L. Andersen and M. Munch and O. S. Kirsebom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07053},
year = {2018}
}
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Submitted for Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on State of the Art in Nuclear Cluster Physics (SOTANCP4), held from May 13 - 18, 2018 in Galveston, TX, USA