https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00431-w
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
Precision branching-ratio measurements in 
O
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK
2
Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, 77840, College Station, TX, USA
3
Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
4
Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
5
Università degli Studi di Napoli Fedorico II, 80138, Napoli, NA, Italy
6
Rud̄er Bošković Institute, Bijeni/vc 54, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
7
Università degli Studi di Padova, 35122, Padova, PD, Italy
8
Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, S1 1WB, Sheffield, UK
9
INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via S. Sofia, 62, 95125, Catania, CT, Italy
Received:
23
August
2020
Accepted:
18
March
2021
Published online:
27
April
2021
An experiment has been performed utilising the 
C(
Li,p)O reaction to populate high-energy states in O. Using the Munich Q3D magnetic spectrograph in conjunction with the Birmingham large-angular-coverage DSSD array, branching ratios have been measured for over fifty states in O, investigating the 
-decay, n-decay, 2n-decay and 
-decay branches. In tandem, Monte-Carlo techniques have been used to identify and separate features.
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