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Three-body decay of $^{6}$Be

Nuclear Experiment 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

Three-body correlations for the ground-state decay of the lightest two-proton emitter 6^{6}Be are studied both theoretically and experimentally. Theoretical studies are performed in a three-body hyperspherical-harmonics cluster model. In the experimental studies, the ground state of 6^{6}Be was formed following the α\alpha decay of a 10^{10}C beam inelastically excited through interactions with Be and C targets. Excellent agreement between theory and experiment is obtained demonstrating the existence of complicated correlation patterns which can elucidate the structure of 6^{6}Be and, possibly, of the A=6 isobar.

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@article{arxiv.0812.4065,
  title  = {Three-body decay of $^{6}$Be},
  author = {L. V. Grigorenko and T. D. Wiser and K. Mercurio and R. J. Charity and R. Shane and L. G. Sobotka and J. M. Elson and A. Wuosmaa and A. Banu and M. McCleskey and L. Trache and R. E. Tribble and M. V. Zhukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4065},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 21 figures, 5 tables