Experimental Study of 4n by Directly Detecting the Decay Neutrons

S. W. Huang, Z. H. Yang*, F. M. Marqués, N. L. Achouri, D. S. Ahn, T. Aumann, H. Baba, D. Beaumel, M. Böhmer, K. Boretzky, M. Caamaño, S. Chen, N. Chiga, M. L. Cortés, D. Cortina, P. Doornenbal, C. A. Douma, F. Dufter, J. Feng, B. Fernández-DomínguezZ. Elekes, U. Forsberg, T. Fujino, N. Fukuda, I. Gašparić, Z. Ge, R. Gernhäuser, J. M. Gheller, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, Z. Halász, T. Harada, M. N. Harakeh, A. Hirayama, N. Inabe, T. Isobe, J. Kahlbow, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, D. Kim, S. Kim, S. Kiyotake, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, P. Koseoglou, P. J. Li, Y. Liu, S. Park, S. Paschalis, B. Yang, L. Yang

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Abstract

The tetraneutron has attracted the attention of nuclear physicists during the past decades, but there is still no unambiguous confirmation of its existence or non-existence. A new experiment based on 8He(p, 2p)7H{t+4n} reaction, with direct detection of the four neutrons, has been carried out at RIBF, which can hopefully help to draw a definite conclusion on the tetraneutron system.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102
Number of pages7
JournalFew-Body Systems
Volume62
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Oct 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of the RIBF accelerator staff and the BigRIPS team for providing the high-quality beam. Z. H. Yang acknowledges the financial support from the Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher program of RIKEN. T. Aumann acknowledges the support by DFG via SFB 1245. P. Koseoglou acknowledges the support from BMBF (NUSTAR.DA grant No.05P 15RDFN1). S. Paschalis acknowledges the support of the UK STFC under contract numbers ST/L005727/1 and ST/P003885/1.

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