IOP Publishing, Chinese Physics C, 11(40), p. 111001, 2016
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/40/11/111001
Proceedings of The 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference — PoS(INPC2016)
DOI: 10.22323/1.281.0035
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A cluster-transfer experiment of $^9\rm{Be}(^9\rm{Be},^{14}\rm{C}→α+^{10}\rm{Be})α$ at an incident energy of 45 MeV was carried out in order to investigate the molecular structure in high-lying resonant states in $^{14}$C. This reaction is of extremely large $Q$-value, making it an excellent case to select the reaction mechanism and the final states in outgoing nuclei. The high-lying resonances in $^{14}$C are reconstructed for three sets of well discriminated final states in $^{10}$Be. The results confirm the previous decay measurements with clearly improved decay-channel selections and show also a new state at 23.5(1) MeV. The resonant states at 22.4(3) and 24.0(3) MeV decay primarily into the typical molecular states at about 6 MeV in $^{10}$Be, indicating a well developed cluster structure in these high-lying states in $^{14}$C. Further measurements of more states of this kind are suggested. ; Comment: To be published in Chinese Physics C; 4 pages, 3 figures