https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16370-0
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Unbound states in 12C populated by 
-decay of the 
16.11 MeV state
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
* e-mail: fynbo@phys.au.dk
Received:
7
October
2016
Accepted:
2
December
2016
Published online:
28
December
2016
The reaction 11
B + p has been used to populate the state at an excitation energy of 16.11 MeV in 12C. The -decay to unbound states in 12C is identified from the analysis of the decay of the populated daughter states. Due to a new technique, -decay to the 10.8 MeV 
state is observed for the first time, and transitions to the 9.64 MeV (
) and 12.71 MeV (
) are confirmed. Unresolved transitions to natural parity strength at 10 MeV and 11.5-13 MeV are also observed. For all transitions partial widths are deduced.
© The Author(s), 2016
