Abstract
A new toroidal spectrometer has been used to determine an end point of 1865±15 keV for the main positron branch in the decay of . This end point, together with the previous work on the mass 10 nuclei, leads to a Coulomb energy difference of 4.61 MeV between the mirror nuclei and . According to the cluster model, developed by Wildermuth and Kanellopoulos, is composed of a di-proton cluster and two alpha-particle clusters. A lower bound on the size of the di-proton cluster may be obtained from the charge radius, while the size of the alpha clusters can be calculated from the charge radius of . However, these estimates of cluster size imply an upper limit of 3.52 MeV on the - Coulomb energy difference. Hence, it is concluded that this particular cluster model does not describe the spatial properties of these nuclear clusters in a manner consistent with experimental evidence.
- Received 8 July 1963
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.132.1763
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