10Be excited states populated in the 9Be(9Be,8Be)10Be reaction

Analysis of the Be-9(Be-9,Be-8)Be-10 reaction at E-beam=48 MeV indicates that excited states in Be-10 were populated up to similar to15 MeV. Detecting coincident alpha particles allowed the excitation energy spectrum of Be-8 to be reconstructed. By gating on either the Be-8 2(+) or 4(+) states, information on the total magnitudes of the spins of the various states in the coincident Be-10 nuclei was obtained. Members of the ground state K=0(+) and K=1(-) rotational bands were populated, with the excitation energies in good agreement with the previous work. In addition, a new state was identified at 13.78 MeV.