Two-neutron interferometry as a probe of the nuclear halo

Marqués, F.M.; Labiche, M.; Orr, N.A.; Angélique, J.C.; Axelsson, L.; Benoit, B.; Bergmann, U.C.; Borge, M.J.G.; Catford, W.N.; Chappell, S.P.G.

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00141-6

Two-neutron interferometry as a probe of the nuclear halo

2000

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Phys.Lett.B 476 (2000) 219-225

Published: 2000

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10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00141-6

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The technique of intensity interferometry is proposed as a probe of the spatial configuration of two-neutron haloes. After exploring the sensitivity of interferometry to the n-n configuration, it is demonstrated that the application of the standard method for constructing the correlation function is not valid for halo neutrons. A new iterative method is presented and applied to measurements of the dissociation of 6 He, 11 Li and 14 Be. The correlation functions for these systems have thus been extracted for the first time and the corresponding root-mean-square n-n separations estimated. The results are in agreement with the predictions of available three-body models.

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Two-neutron haloes
Intensity interferometry
Residual correlations
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