Abstract
An attempt was made to find the very neutron-rich isotope among the fragmentation products of a 90 MeV/nucleon beam. This isotope has been predicted to be bound but was not observed in a previous experiment by Guillemaud-Mueller et al. As part of the search, the momentum distributions of all the oxygen isotopes in the range from to were carefully determined so that the optimum separator setting for could be used. From an extrapolation of the counting rates of the lighter oxygen isotopes, we expected to observe several hundred events of during the measurement. However, no events could be attributed to , thus indicating the particle instability of this isotope. The results for the production cross sections of 72 neutron-rich isotopes, ranging from to , are presented and compared to predictions. © 1996 The American Physical Society.
- Received 27 July 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.647
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