New candidate for deformed halo nucleus in Mg isotopes through analysis of reaction cross sections

Abstract

The total reaction cross sections of Mg isotopes on a 12C target at 240 MeV/nucleon have been analyzed with a fully microscopic framework, i.e., the double folding model with the density calculated by antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. Our results well reproduce the latest experimental data except 37Mg as a new candidate for a deformed halo nucleus. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2014.