Speaker
Dr
Frederick David Smit
(iThemba LABS)
Description
The excitation region centered around 10 MeV in 12C is characterized by several broad overlapping states. Recent Anti-symmetrized Molecular Dynamics cluster calculations show that the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance (ISGMR) may have two components and that the smaller amplitude oscillation may contribute to the strength in this region. It is proposed to measure the 14C(p,t)12C reaction at 0 degrees for comparison to the 12C(alpha,alpha’) reaction at 0 degrees. The (p,t) reaction is expected to only weakly excite the ISGMR while the (alpha, alpha’) reaction excites it strongly. A comparison of the two excitation modes will help to unravel where the contributions of the ISGMR are in the excitation energy spectra of 12C. Some very preliminary results from the (p,t) experiments will be shown.
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Primary author
Dr
Frederick David Smit
(iThemba LABS)
Co-authors
Prof.
Elias Khan
(Institut Universitaire de France, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, IN2P3- CNRS, France)
Prof.
Evgenii Nikolski
(3 National Research Centre, “Kurchov Institute”, Kurchov sq 1,123182, Moscow, Russia and Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia)
Dr
George O'Neill
(Department of Physics, University of Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535 and iThemba LABS, P. O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129)
Mr
Kevin Li
(Stellenbosch University, iThemba Labs)
Dr
Lindsay Donaldson
(iThemba LABS, P. O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129)
Dr
Luna Pellegri
(University of Witwatersrand and iThemba LABs)
Mr
Mohamed Kamil Mohamed
(University of the Western Cape)
Dr
Paul Papka
(Stellenbosch University)
Dr
Phil Adsley
(Institut Universitaire de France, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, IN2P3- CNRS, France)
Dr
Retief Neveling
(iThemba LABS)
Dr
Vicente Pesudo
(Department of Physics, University of Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535 and iThemba LABS, P. O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129)
