Eur. Phys. J. A 14, 295-307 (2002)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10199-6

Search for molecular bands in

M. Milin^{1, 2, 3} and W. von Oertzen<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
²  Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Glienicker Strasse 100, 14109 Berlin, Germany
³  Ruder Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka c. 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia

mmilin@lnr.irb.hr
oertzen@hmi.de

(Received: 12 December 2001 / Revised version: 22 February 2002 Communicated by J. Äystö)

Abstract
In a systematic search through experimental results for transfer reactions, inelastic excitations and other data for ¹³C we identify states which have no simple structure related to the low-lying states of ¹²C. We propose that these states have strong -clustering and that they are related to chain states expected in C. The properties of these states are discussed on the basis of a molecular orbital model.

PACS
21.10.-k - Properties of nuclei; nuclear energy levels.
21.60.Gx - Cluster models.

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