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Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082501 (2003) [4 pages]

Experimental Evidence for the Existence of 7H and for a Specific Structure of 8He

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A. A. Korsheninnikov*, E. Yu. Nikolskii*, E. A. Kuzmin*, A. Ozawa, K. Morimoto, F. Tokanai, R. Kanungo, and I. Tanihata
RIKEN, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

N. K. Timofeyuk
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

M. S. Golovkov, A. S. Fomichev, A. M. Rodin, M. L. Chelnokov, and G. M. Ter-Akopian
JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia

W. Mittig, P. Roussel-Chomaz, and H. Savajols
GANIL, BP 5027, F-14076 CAEN, CEDEX 5, France

E. Pollacco
DAPNIA-SPhN, CEA Saclay, France

A. A. Ogloblin
Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Square 1, 123182 Moscow, Russia

M. V. Zhukov
Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden

Received 8 October 2002; published 27 February 2003

Experimental search for the superheavy 7H isotope was performed in the reaction p(8He,pp)7H with the 8He beam at 61.3A   MeV. The evidence for existence of the 7H state near the t+4n threshold was obtained. In the same experiment, the p(8He,t) reaction populating the ground and excited 2+ state of 6He was investigated. The obtained results argue on a specific structure of the 8He ground state containing the 6He subsystem in the excited 2+ state with a large weight.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.082501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.082501
PACS:
27.20.+n, 25.60.Je

*On leave from the Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Square 1, 123182 Moscow, Russia.