Role of the Δ Resonance in the Population of a Four-Nucleon State in the
Phys Rev Lett
; 117(22): 222302, 2016 Nov 25.
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| ID: mdl-27925748
The ^{54}Fe nucleus was populated from a ^{56}Fe beam impinging on a Be target with an energy of E/A=500 MeV. The internal decay via γ-ray emission of the 10^{+} metastable state was observed. As the structure of this isomeric state has to involve at least four unpaired nucleons, it cannot be populated in a simple two-neutron removal reaction from the ^{56}Fe ground state. The isomeric state was produced in the low-momentum (-energy) tail of the parallel momentum (energy) distribution of ^{54}Fe, suggesting that it was populated via the decay of the Δ^{0} resonance into a proton. This process allows the population of four-nucleon states, such as the observed isomer. Therefore, it is concluded that the observation of this 10^{+} metastable state in ^{54}Fe is a consequence of the quark structure of the nucleons.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Phys Rev Lett
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom
Country of publication:
United States