Exploring the anomaly in the interaction cross section and matter radius of 23O
Kanungo, R. and others
Keywords
exotic nuclei, shell evolution, matter radii
Abstract
New measurements of the interaction cross sections of 22,23O at 900A MeV performed at the GSI, Darmstadt are reported that address the unsolved puzzle of the large cross section previously observed for 23O. The matter radii for these oxygen isotopes extracted through a Glauber model analysis are in good agreement with the new predictions of the ab initio coupled-cluster theory reported here. They are consistent with a 22O_s16neutron description of 23O as well.
