1. Observation and spectroscopy of proton-unbound nucleus $^{21}$Al
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Kostyleva, D., Xu, X. -D., Mukha, I., Acosta, L., Bajzek, M., Casarejos, E., Ciemny, A. A., Cortina-Gil, D., Dominik, W., Dueñas, J. A., Espino, J. M., Estradé, A., Farinon, F., Fomichev, A., Geissel, H., Gómez-Camacho, J., Gorshkov, A., Grigorenko, L. V., Janas, Z., Kamiński, G., Kiselev, O., Knöbel, R., Korsheninnikov, A. A., Krupko, S., Kuich, M., Kurz, N., Litvinov, Yu. A., Marquinez-Durán, G., Martel, I., Mazzocchi, C., Nikolskii, E. Yu., Nociforo, C., Ordúz, A. K., Pfützner, M., Pietri, S., Pomorski, M., Prochazka, A., Rodríguez-Tajes, C., Rymzhanova, S., Sánchez-Benítez, A. M., Scheidenberger, C., Simon, H., Sitar, B., Slepnev, R., Stanoiu, M., Strmen, P., Sümmerer, K., Szarka, I., Takechi, M., Tanaka, Y. K., Weick, H., Winfield, J. S., Woods, P. J., and Zhukov, M. V.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We report on the observation of previously-unknown isotope $^{21}$Al, the first unbound aluminum isotope located beyond the proton dripline. The $^{21}$Al nucleus decays by one-proton (1p) emission, and its in-flight decays were detected by tracking trajectories of all decay products with micro-strip silicon detectors. The 1p-emission processes were studied by analyses of the measured angular correlations of decay products $^{20}$Mg+p. The 1p-decay energies of ground and low-lying excited states of $^{21}$Al, its mass excess and proton separation energy value $S_p$=$-1.1(1)$ MeV were determined., Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures
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- 2024
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