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New high precision study on the decay width of the Hoyle state in C-12

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Rana, T K; Bhattacharya, S; Bhattacharya, C; Manna, Sumanta K.; Kundu, Samir; Banerjee, Kaushik; Pandey, R; Roy, Pratap; Dhal, A; Mukherjee, G; Srivastava, Vishal

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Precise estimation of the rare direct 3α decay of the Hoyle state of 12C has been made to unveil its unusual α-cluster configurations ranging from linear 3α chain structure to diffuse Bose gas as well as Bose Einstein condensate. The present new high precision, nearly zero background experimental study with Hoyle events has converged on the upper limit for direct decay at ∼0.019% with 95% confidence limit, which is more than a factor of 2 lower than the limit obtained in the previous studies.

dc.contributor.authorRana, T K
dc.contributor.authorBhattacharya, S
dc.contributor.authorBhattacharya, C
dc.contributor.authorManna, Sumanta K.
dc.contributor.authorKundu, Samir
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Kaushik
dc.contributor.authorPandey, R
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Pratap
dc.contributor.authorDhal, A
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, G
dc.contributor.authorSrivastava, Vishal
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-20T02:51:40Z
dc.date.available2020-03-20T02:51:40Z
dc.identifier.issn0370-2693
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/202403
dc.description.abstractPrecise estimation of the rare direct 3α decay of the Hoyle state of 12C has been made to unveil its unusual α-cluster configurations ranging from linear 3α chain structure to diffuse Bose gas as well as Bose Einstein condensate. The present new high precision, nearly zero background experimental study with Hoyle events has converged on the upper limit for direct decay at ∼0.019% with 95% confidence limit, which is more than a factor of 2 lower than the limit obtained in the previous studies.
dc.description.sponsorshipTwo of the authors (S.B. and A.R.) acknowledge the financial support received as Raja Ramanna Fellowship from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors.
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourcePhysics Letters B
dc.titleNew high precision study on the decay width of the Hoyle state in C-12
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume793
dc.date.issued2019
local.identifier.absfor020202 - Nuclear Physics
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4835
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.elsevier.com/en-au
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationRana, T K, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationBhattacharya, S, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationBhattacharya, C, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationManna, Sumanta K., Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationKundu, Samir, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationBanerjee, Kaushik, College of Science, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationPandey, R, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationRoy, Pratap, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationDhal, A, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationMukherjee, G, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.contributor.affiliationSrivastava, Vishal, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage130
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage133
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physletb.2019.04.028
local.identifier.absseo970102 - Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:43:43Z
local.identifier.thomsonIDWOS:000470064800021
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dc.provenance© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3
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