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Unbound states in the neutron-rich $^{17}$C nucleus were probed via the $^{16}$C(d,p) transfer reaction in inverse kinematics using the Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) placed in the HELIOS solenoid at the ATLAS facility in Argonne National Laboratory. A wide range of excitation energies from the ground state to approximately 10 MeV were measured using a $^{16}$C radioactive beam at 12 MeV/u and a pure deuterium gas active target. Using the large angular coverage and high luminosity of the AT-TPC , the angular distributions of these $^{17}$C resonances were observed, with an aim to make preliminary spin-parity assignments and determine spectroscopic factors. These findings are compared to recent results obtained from invariant mass spectroscopy and shell model calculations. Their study, in particular the p-shell hole negative parity resonances, are especially interesting in probing cross-shell monopole-based interactions.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02- 06CH11357. This research used resources of ANL’s ATLAS facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility and used resources of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Operations, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility under Award Number DE-SC0023633.
