# Clustering in $^{18}$O - absolute determination of branching ratios via high-resolution particle spectroscopy

### Submission summary

 As Contributors: Stuart Pirrie Preprint link: scipost_201912_00001v1 Date submitted: 2019-12-01 Submitted by: Pirrie, Stuart Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings Proceedings issue: 24th European Few Body Conference (University of Surrey, U.K.) Discipline: Physics Subject area: Nuclear Physics - Experiment Approaches: Experimental, Computational

### Abstract

The determination of absolute branching ratios for high-energy states in light nuclei is an important and useful tool for probing the underlying nuclear structure of individual resonances: for example, in establishing the tendency of an excited state towards $\alpha$-cluster structure. Difficulty arises in measuring these branching ratios due to similarities in available decay channels, such as ($^{18}$O,$n$) and ($^{18}$O,$2n$), as well as differences in geometric efficiencies due to population of bound excited levels in daughter nuclei. Methods are presented using Monte Carlo techniques to overcome these issues.

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### Submission & Refereeing History

Submission scipost_201912_00001v1 on 1 December 2019