Exploring the neutron dripline two
neutrons at a
time:Observations of 26O
and 16Be
ground state resonances, Z. Kohley for the MoNA Collaboration, National
Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University,
East Lansing,
Michigan, USA − Experimental results for the first
observations of
the two-neutron unbound 26O and 16Be
nuclei will be
presented. The ground-state resonances of these nuclei were
measured
through the 3-body coincidence detection of the fragment+n+n
systems using the
MoNA/Sweeper setup. The 26O and 16Be
nuclei were
populated through single proton-knockout reactions from 27F
and 17B
radioactive ion beams, respectively, produced at the National
Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory. The reconstructed 3-body decay energy
of the 24O+n+n
system showed a low-energy resonance providing strong evidence for
the
two-neutron unbound 26O ground-state. The 26O
ground-state provides an important benchmark for understanding the
drastic
shift in the location of the neutron dripline between the oxygen
and fluorine
isotopes. In the 16Be ground state, correlations
between the
decay products were examined and demonstrated a strong dineutron
character. This represents the first observation of a ground
state
dineutron decay.