Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 161-163 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00293-5

Study of N = 16 for Ne isotopes

¹ DSM/DAPNIA/SPhN, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
² GANIL, BP. 5027, 14076 Caen Cedex 5, France
³ Department of Physics, The University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece

Received: 31 January 2007
Published online: 8 December 2007

Abstract

²⁷Ne has been investigated through the one neutron transfer reaction ²⁶Ne(d,p)²⁷Ne in inverse kinematics at 9.7 MeV/nucleon. The results support the existence of a low lying negative parity state in ²⁷Ne which is a signature of a reduced sd-fp shell gap in the N = 16 neutron rich region, at variance with stable nuclei.