Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 119
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16119-9

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Structure of ¹⁶Ne(2⁺, E_x=6.18 MeV)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

^* e-mail: fortune@physics.upenn.edu

Received: 6 February 2016
Revised: 6 March 2016
Accepted: 8 March 2016
Published online: 4 May 2016

Abstract

For several configurations that could be candidates for the structure of a recently-discovered narrow 2⁺ state at an excitation energy of 6.18 MeV in ¹⁶Ne, I present expected energies and widths. None is able to account for all the details of the data.