1. First observation of 20B and 21B
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Leblond, S., Marqués, F. M., Gibelin, J., Orr, N. A., Kondo, Y., Nakamura, T., Bonnard, J., Michel, N., Achouri, N. L., Aumann, T., Baba, H., Delaunay, F., Deshayes, Q., Doornenbal, P., Fukuda, N., Hwang, J. W., Inabe, N., Isobe, T., Kameda, D., Kanno, D., Kim, S., Kobayashi, N., Kobayashi, T., Kubo, T., Lee, J., Minakata, R., Motobayashi, T., Murai, D., Murakami, T., Muto, K., Nakashima, T., Nakatsuka, N., Navin, A., Nishi, S., Ogoshi, S., Otsu, H., Sato, H., Satou, Y., Shimizu, Y., Suzuki, H., Takahashi, K., Takeda, H., Takeuchi, S., Tanaka, R., Togano, Y., Tuff, A. G., Vandebrouck, M., and Yoneda, K.
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Nuclear Experiment ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
The most neutron-rich boron isotopes 20B and 21B have been observed for the first time following proton removal from 22N and 22C at energies around 230 MeV/nucleon. Both nuclei were found to exist as resonances which were detected through their decay into 19B and one or two neutrons. Two-proton removal from 22N populated a prominent resonance-like structure in 20B at around 2.5 MeV above the one-neutron decay threshold, which is interpreted as arising from the closely spaced 1-,2- ground-state doublet predicted by the shell model. In the case of proton removal from 22C, the 19B plus one- and two-neutron channels were consistent with the population of a resonance in 21B 2.47+-0.19 MeV above the two-neutron decay threshold, which is found to exhibit direct two-neutron decay. The ground-state mass excesses determined for 20,21B are found to be in agreement with mass surface extrapolations derived within the latest atomic-mass evaluations., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.262502
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- 2019
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