Feb 08, 2024
Exotic, very neutron-rich nuclei: a laboratory for nuclear interactions
For the first time, an experiment has provided key observations on the spectroscopy of the neutron-rich unbound oxygen nuclei (proton number Z = 8), oxygen 28 (N = 20) and its neighboring isotope at N = 19, oxygen 27. They were produced in high-energy reactions and observed by direct detection of their decay products, 24O and three or four neutrons.
