Authors: D R CHAKRABARTY
Publish Date: 2014/11/04
Volume: 83, Issue: 5, Pages: 635-642
Abstract
The nucleus 8Be has been conjectured to resemble a molecule of two interacting αparticles A crucial test of this conjecture is the electromagnetic transition between the molecular resonances This paper discusses the earlier indirect bremsstrahlung measurements and describes a recent experiment on the direct measurement of γtransition between the 4+ and 2+ resonances Experimental results are compared with various theories The outlook on the measurement of 2+ → 0+ transition will be presentedThis paper has been presented on behalf of the author’s collaborators V M Datar Suresh Kumar V Nanal S P Behera A Chatterjee D Jenkins C J Lister E T Mirgule A Mitra S Pastore R G Pillay K Ramachandran O J Roberts P C Rout A Shrivastava P Sugathan and R B Wiringa The author acknowledges Late Prof C V K Baba who was enthusiastic about this program for very useful discussion R Kujur and M Pose are thanked for their assistance during the experiment
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