Spectroscopy of 17C and (sd )3 structures in heavy carbon isotopes

H. G. Bohlen1, R. Kalpakchieva2,3, W. von Oertzen4, T. N. Massey5, A. A. Ogloblin6, G. de Angelis7, M. Milin8, Ch. Schulz1, Tz. Kokalova1, C. Wheldon1
1Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
3Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, Dubna, Russia
4Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Berlin, Germany
5Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, USA
6IGNP, RCC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
7INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy
8Rud height 0.09ex width 0.315emer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

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The structure of 17C has been investigated using the three-neutron transfer reaction (12C,9C) on a 14C target at 231MeV incident energy, the reaction Q-value is Q 0 = - 46.930MeV. Eleven new states up to 16.3MeV excitation energy were identified. The same reaction has also been used on a 12C target ( Q 0 = - 38.787MeV), and excited states in 15C up to 19MeV were observed. In 17C the three transferred neutrons populate (sd )3 configurations on the 14C core. The comparison of levels populated by the (12C,9C) reaction in 17C, 16C and 15C reveals a strong similarity of their properties. This concerns especially nine states in each of the three carbon isotopes, which show practically the same excitation energies except a constant mean shift of +5.82MeV for 16C and +6.65MeV for 15C with respect to 17C. The triples of states from the three isotopes, which correspond to each other, have also similar widths and cross-section ratios. It is concluded that the same (sd )3 structures are populated in the three carbon isotopes. The observed levels of 17C are also compared to the levels of 19O with known assignments and to shell model calculations, and their decay properties are discussed.

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