(en) Measurements of the breakup and the neutron removal reactions of 16C have been made at 46 MeV∕A and the decay cross sections measured. A correlation between the cluster breakup channels and the reaction Q value suggests that the reaction mechanism is strongly linked to quasielastic processes. No enhancement of the two-body cluster breakup cross section is seen for 16C. This result would indicate that 16C does not have a well developed cluster structure in the ground state, in agreement with recent calculations.
Ashwood, N. I., Freer, M., Angelique, J. C., Catford, W. N., Clarke, N. M., Curtis, N., Dorvaux, O., Hanappe, F., Kerckx, Y., Labiche, M., Lecouey, J. L., Marques, F. M., Materna, T., Normand, G., Orr, N. A., Pain, S., Soic, N., Stuttge, L., Timis, C., et al. (2004). Measurements of the breakup and neutron removal cross sections for **16C. Physical Review C, Nuclear Physics, 70, 64607. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.70.064607 (Original work published 2004)