Direct evidence for the breakdown of the N = 8 shell closure in 12Be
Partial cross sections and corresponding momentum distributions have been studied in the one-neutron knockout reaction ( 12Be,11Be+gamma) on a 9Be target at 78 MeV/nucleon. The resulting spectroscopic factors for the only two bound states of 11Be are 0.42+/-0.06 ( 1/2(+)) and 0.37+/-0.06 ( 1/2(-)), where the errors are experimental only. This result shows that N = 8 is not a good closed shell in the neutron-rich 12Be and that the last neutron pair is two-thirds in the ( 1s(2)+0d(2)) intruder configuration.
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National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 and Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India.
Anthony
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Aumann
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Baumann
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Bazin
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Blumenfeld
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Brown
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Glasmacher
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Hansen
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Ibbotson
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Lofy
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Maddalena
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Miller
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Nakamura
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Pritychenko
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Sherrill
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Spears
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Steiner
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Tostevin
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Wagner
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