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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 14(112), 2014

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.142501

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Deformation-Drivenp-Wave Halos at the Drip Line:Ne31

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Abstract

The halo structure of Ne31 is studied using 1n-removal reactions on C and Pb targets at 230 MeV/nucleon. A combined analysis of the cross sections of these nuclear and Coulomb dominated reactions that feed directly the Ne30 ground-state reveals Ne31 to have a small neutron separation energy, 0.15+0.16−0.10 MeV, and spin-parity 3/2−. Consistency of the data with reaction and large-scale shell-model calculations identifies Ne31 as deformed and having a significant p-wave halo component, suggesting that halos are more frequent occurrences at the neutron drip line.