Investigating Resonances in Light Nuclei with <sup>3</sup>He-Induced Reactions

ORAL

Abstract

Resonances in light nuclei provide insight into nuclear structure and provide sensitive benchmarks for nuclear structure models, particularly ab initio theories. The study of these resonances is challenging due to detecting and identifying decay particles from a particular state with sufficient energy and angular resolution. In this work, we employ an integrated resonance-decay and charged-particle spectroscopy technique to study resonances in light nuclei produced in 3He-induced reactions. By detecting the charged-particle decay products and analyzing reaction kinematics, the resonance energies and widths can be reconstructed using invariant-mass and missing-mass analysis. An experiment has been performed at the John D. Fox Superconducting Linear Accelerator Laboratory at Florida State University (FSU) that utilized charged-particle detectors at both forward and backward laboratory angles to study resonances populated in light-mass nuclei with 3He-induced reactions such as 7Li(3He,4He)6Li. The use of this method to reconstruct resonances in 6Li and 9B will be presented.

*This material is based on work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER40989, the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under Award Number DE-NA0004150, and by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. PHY-2012522, PHY-2310059, and PHY-2412808.

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Presenters

  • Zachary M Purcell

    • Louisiana State University

Authors

  • Zachary M Purcell

    • Louisiana State University

  • Scott T Marley

    • Louisiana State University

  • Rachel M Shaffer

    • Louisiana State University

  • Benjamin Asher

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Lagy Baby

    • Florida State University
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Caleb B Benetti

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • William Braverman

    • Louisiana State University

  • Alex L Conley

    • Florida State University
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Keilah Davis

    • Louisiana State University

  • Catherine M Deibel

    • Louisiana State University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

  • Chris Esparza

    • Florida State University
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Kenneth G Hanselman

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Bryan Kelly

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University
    • Florida State University

  • Kevin T Macon

    • Louisiana State University

  • Gordon William McCann

    • Michigan State University
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Ashton Brooke Morelock

    • University of Tennessee
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Andrea Munroe

    • Louisiana State University

  • Jesus F Perello Izaguirre

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Khang H Pham

    • Louisiana State University

  • Vignesh Sitaraman

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Sudarsan Balakrishnan

    • Rutgers University
    • Louisiana State University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

  • Eli S Temanson

    • Department of Physics, Florida State University

  • Ingo Wiedenhoever

    • Florida State University
    • Department of Physics, Florida State University