To study the β-delayed neutron decay of nuclei far from β stability line, a new β-delayed neutron detection system working with the continuous beam mode has been built at Peking University and tested with radioactive ion beams. To get fast timing signal for neutron Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurement and good spatial correlation between the implanted particles and the subsequent β particles, a double-sided silicon detector is sandwiched between two thin plastic scintillators, which constitute the implantation and β detection array. According to the test measurements with radioactive ion beams, this detection system has a high β coincident detection efficiency of 30.7(5)% with much less disturbance from other unstable nuclei and the random background. After the time-walk correction and the flight path calibration, good energy resolution based on neutron ToF measurement can be obtained. The properties of this detection system make the study of β-delayed neutron decay of nuclei with very low beam intensity feasible.

A transfer-reaction experiment of 9Be(9Be, 10Be)8Be was performed at a beam energy of 45 MeV. Excited states in 10Be up to 18.80 MeV are produced using missing mass and invariant mass methods. Most of the observed high-lying resonant states, reconstructed from the α + 6He and t + 7Li decay channels, agree with the previously reported results. In addition, two new resonances at 15.6 and 18.8 MeV are identified from the present measurement. The 18.55 MeV state is found to decay into both the t + 7Lig.s. and t + 7Li* (0.478 MeV) channels, with a relative branching ratio of 0.93 ± 0.33. Further theoretical investigations are encouraged to interpret this new information on cluster structure in neutron-rich light nuclei.

In this paper Pulse Shape Discrimination(PSD) for silicon detector has been briefly introduced. The emerging digital method successfully applied to detector signal processing makes digital PSD method one of the most promising particle identification methods. Sampling frequency and the number of bits are two key parameters of digital method. For silicon detector signal, adopting 100 Ms/s, 12 bit Digitizer can satisfy the time resolution requirement of PSD method. The identification characteristic and energy threshold of this method have been discussed and compared with both front injection and rear injection cases. Energy threshold with rear injection usually is much lower than that with front injection. For example, around for Neon isotope energy threshold with rear injection is about 100 MeV which is only half of the threshold with front injection, also equivalent to thickness of about 60 μm silicon detector threshold in ?E-E method. At the end the impact of silicon detector's resistivity nonuniformity and channel effect on the identification capacity of PSD method has been discussed in detail.

>The"island of inversion"has been known for over a quarter century,since Warburton et al.[1]proposed that nuclei with intruder ground states would constitute a 3×3 square with Z=10-12,N=20-22 in 1990.Uncovering the underlying inversion mechanism and exploring the scope of the island have attracted significant theoretical and experimental efforts in the following years.Now it is well known that the reduction of N=20 shell gap,which is likely caused by the strong

To study the β decays of nuclei far from the β-stability line, an implantation and β detection system has been implemented at the Peking University. This detection system covers a wide energy range from keV to GeV while maintaining a good energy resolution and a low detection threshold. By correlating the implantation nuclei with their subsequent β-decays within the same pixel or adjacent pixels of a double-sided silicon detector (DSSD), the β decay properties of implanted nuclei can be measured with much less disturbance from other unstable nuclei and the random background.

A neutron detector array was used in a breakup reaction experiment at RIKEN with an 82.5 MeV/u 8He beam impinging on the CH2 and C targets. The array was calibrated using the cosmic ray, the γ ray from the 6 He+Pb reaction and the mono-energetic neutrons from the 7Li（p, n）7Be（g.s.+0.43 MeV） reaction. The position resolution, timing resolution and neutron detection efficiency were obtained accordingly. Cross-talk rejection conditions were developed based on analysis of the data taken from the 7Li（p, n） 7Be（g.s.+0.43 MeV） test experiment, and finally a preliminary two-neutron correlation function for the 8 He breakup reaction was investigated.

The experimental data of the isotopic distribution for projectile-like fragments are presented for the 17,18N + 197Au reaction at 33MeV/u. The width of the isotopic distributions for 18N projectile is significantly broader than that for 17N projectile, and the average N/Z ratio of the former shifts to higher neutron number side. As long as the realistic nucleon density distribution is used, the isotopic distribution for fragments is reproduced by the simple abrasion-ablation model calculation, which thus provides an independent way to determine the surface distribution of the nuclear matter density for neutron-rich nuclei.

To study the beta decay of nuclei far from the beta-stable valley, a new implantation and beta detection system has been developed at the Peking University. Working with the logarithmic MPR-16 preamplifier, this detection system covers a large energy range from keV to GeV with good energy resolution and stability. By correlating the implantation nuclei with their subsequent beta decays within the same pixel of a double-sided silicon detector (DSSD), we can measure the decay time of the implantation nuclei with much less disturbance from the neighboring unstable nuclei and background.

Breakup reactions of the double borromean nucleus 8He were measured at 82.3 MeV/u on CH2 and C targets. The coincident detection of two decaying neutrons and the high performance for neutron cross talk rejection are realized in this experiment. The relative energy spectrum for 8He was reconstructed with good statistics. The spectrum exhibits a structure of two resonant peaks, one at an excitation energy of about 3.0 and the other at about 4.14 MeV, respectively. Substantially larger cross section for the first resonance is observed in comparison to the results reported previously.

A knockout reaction experiment was carried out by using the 6He beam at 82.5 MeV/nucleon impinging on CH2 and C targets. The a core fragments at forward angles were detected in coincidence with the recoiled protons at larger angles. From this exclusive measurement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism are separated. This study provides a basis for the exclusive spectroscopic investigation of the exotic nuclei.

Using a cluster model based on the Woods-Saxon potential, alpha-particle decays from excited states in 24Mg have been systematically investigated. Calculations can in general reproduce experimental data, noticing the fact that the preformation factor P of alpha particle in alpha-decaying nuclei is of order from 100 to 10−2. This can be the evidence for the α+20Ne structure in 24Mg. Meanwhile, the results also show the existence of other configurations, such as 16O+2α. Since the calculated decay widths are very sensitive to the angular momentum carried by the outgoing cluster (α particle), our results could serve as a guide to experimental spin assignments.

The β-decay studies of neutron-rich 18,21N isotopes have been performed using β-n, β-γ, and β-n-γ coincidence methods. The 18,21N ions were produced by the fragmentation of the 22Ne and 26Mg beams, respectively, on a thick beryllium target. The time of flight of the emitted neutrons following the β-decay of 18,21N was measured by a neutron detector system with wide energy detection range and low-energy detection threshold. In addition, several clover germanium detectors were used to detect the β-delayed γ-rays. The half-lives of the β-decays of 18N and 21N were determined to be (619±2) ms and (82.9±7.5) ms, respectively. Several new β-delayed neutron groups were observed with a total branching ratio of (6.98±1.46)% and (90.5±4.2)% for 18N and 21N, respectively. The level schemes of 18O and 21O were deduced. The experimental Gamow-Teller β-decay strengths of 18N and 21N to these levels were compared with the shell model calculations.

A knockout reaction induced by 6He at 61.2 MeV/u was carried out at the HIRFL-RIBLL radioactive beam line. The α core fragments at forward angles were detected in coincidence with the recoiled protons at large angles. From this coincident measurement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism can be separated according to the polar angle correlation between the core fragments and the recoiled protons. It is demonstrated that, when reconstructing the resonant state of a weakly bound nucleus, the contamination resulting from the core knockout mechanism should be eliminated in order to obtain the correct structure information.

Knockout reaction experiment was carried out by using the 6 He beams at 61.2 MeV/u impinging on a CH 2 target. The α core fragments at forward angles were detected in coincidence with the recoiled protons at larger angles. From this exclusive measurement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism can be distinguished by the relation between the polar angles of the core fragments and the recoiled protons, respectively. It is demonstrated that the core knockout mechanism may result in some strong contamination to the real invariant mass spectrum.

Differential cross sections for the elastic scattering of halo nucleus 6He on proton target were measured at 82.3 MeV/u. The experimental results are well reproduced by optical model calculations using global potential KD02 with a reduction of the depth of real volume part by a factor of 0.7. A systematic analysis shows that this behavior might be related to the weakly bound property of unstable nuclei.

An experiment for knockout reaction induced by 8He beam at 82.5 MeV/nucleon on CH2 and C targets was carried out. The 6He and 4He core fragments at forward angles and the recoiled protons at large angles were detected coincidently. From this exclusive measurement the valence nucleon knockout mechanism and the core knockout mechanism are separated, which can be applied to the exclusive spectroscopic study on the structure of exotic nuclei.

A β-delayed neutron detection array composed of a neutron sphere and two neutron walls was constructed in the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology at Peking University. Recently the performances of this detection array were largely improved and tested with a Co60 source, cosmic rays and C16 and N17 radioactive beams. The Tyvek 1056D paper and silicone grease were chosen for the reflection and coupling materials, respectively. For the neutron sphere with large detection solid angle (30% of 4π steradian), the intrinsic efficiency is about 14.1% at a neutron energy of 1MeV and the detection threshold is about 350keV; for the neutron walls with flexible setup, these values are 36.5% and 200keV, respectively. The combined array of neutron sphere and neutron walls has successfully been applied to measure the β-delayed neutrons emitted from neutron-rich unstable nuclei.

High-spin states of 156Yb have been studied via the 144Sm（16O,4n）156Yb fusion-evaporation reaction at beam energy 102 MeV. The positive-parity yrast band and negative-parity cascade have been extended up to higher-spin states, respectively. The characteristics of the negative-parity sequence above the 25-state may related to the excitation from the nucleon in the Z =64, N =82 core. The E-GOS curve for the positiveparity yrast sequence in 156Yb indicate that this nucleus may undergo an evolution from quasivibrational to quasirotational structure with increasing angular momentum. The Cranked Woods-Saxon-Strutinsky calculations by means of Total-Routhian-Surface （TRS） methods has been made to understand this structure change.