Multi-particle correlation function to study short-lived nuclei

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that multi-particle correlation functions in heavy-ion collisions can effectively probe the spectroscopic properties of short-lived, unbound nuclear states in exotic nuclei.

Contribution

It introduces a method using multi-particle correlation functions to study short-lived nuclei produced in heavy-ion collisions, providing new spectroscopic insights.

Findings

Heavy-ion collisions can access unbound state properties.

Decay energies and sequential decay widths are measurable.

Method applicable to exotic nuclei spectroscopy.

Abstract

Unstable 10C nuclei are produced as quasi-projectiles in 12C+24Mg collisions at E/A = 53 and 95 MeV. The decay of their short-lived states is studied with the INDRA multidetector array via multi-particle correlation functions. The obtained results show that heavy-ion collisions can be used as a tool to access spectroscopic information of unbound states in exotic nuclei, such as their energies and the relative importance of different sequential decay widths.