Strong Resonances at High Excitation Energy in O Alpha Resonance Scattering.

The thick target inverse kinematics (TTIK) approach was used to measure excitation functions for the elastic O () scattering at the initial O beam energy of 54.4 MeV. We observed strong peaks corresponding to highly excited -cluster states in the Ne excitation energy region of 8–16 MeV, which have never been investigated before. Additional tests were done at a O beam energy of 56.4 MeV to estimate a possible contribution of resonance inelastic scattering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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