26 June 2022 to 1 July 2022
University of Santiago de Compostela
Europe/Madrid timezone

The search for the tetraneutron

27 Jun 2022, 12:00
20m
Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación

University of Santiago de Compostela

Campus Norte, Av. de Castelao, s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Oral contribution MON2

Speaker

Meytal Duer

Description

Whether multi-neutron systems can exist as weakly bound states or very short-lived unbound resonant states has been a long standing quest. The experimental search for such systems has been going for six decades, with a particular focus on the four-neutron system, the tetraneutron, resulting in up to date only few indications for its existence.
In this talk I will present a recent experiment performed at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan. The measurement was conducted at the SAMURAI setup using the quasi-elastic knockout of an alpha particle from a high-energy 8He projectile induced by a proton target to populate a possible tetraneutron state.

Topic Experiment

Author

Meytal Duer

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