Abstract
In an experiment at the SISSI/LISE facility of GANIL, we used the projectile fragmentation of a primary beam at 73 MeV/nucleon to produce new isotopes of astrophysical interest. We obtained clear evidence for the existence of the five new isotopes , , , and . However, we did not find any evidence for , whereas comparable nuclei were observed with more than 1000 counts. The isotope is thus deduced to be a proton-unbound nucleus with a half-life shorter than about 100 ns. The influence of these results on our understanding of the astrophysical RP process is discussed.
- Received 12 January 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4611
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