The excitation function for the 7 alpha de-excitation of 28 Si nuclei excited to high excitation energies in the collisions of 35 MeV/nucleon 28 Si with 12 C reveals resonance structures that may indicate the population of toroidal high-spin isomers such as those predicted by a number of recent theoretical calculations. This interpretation is supported by extended theoretical analyses.
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