Studies of exotic nuclear beams with the NSCL A1200

Abstract

The first experiments to produce and use exotic nuclei with the newly commissioned A1200 beam analysis device at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory have been recently completed. Experiments that utilize various features of the A1200 or beams of radioactive nuclei from it have become a very important part of the NSCL experimental program. In the present report some of the results from the first experiments will be described. These include the production and observation of new nuclei near the protondrip line in the region 31 < Z < 38, a study of the momenta of projectile fragments and few nucleon transfer products including a new measurement of the $\text{parallel}$ momentum distribution of ⁹Li from ¹¹Li, and a study of the beta-delayed neutron decay of ¹⁵B.