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The disappearance of collective flow in nucleus-nucleus collisions occurs at an incident energy (^bai) where the attraxitive scattering dominant at low energies balances the repulsive scattering dominant at high energies. We have performed the first systematic study of the entrance-channel mass dependence of the disappearance of flow and hence -Ebai-The new data presented for the C-j-C, Ne-hAl, Ar+Sc, and Kr+Nb systems show that JE^bai scales as A~^^^ where A is the mass of the combined system. Boltzmann-Uehling-Uehlenbeck model calculations show trends which are in qualitative agreement with these new results.

A study of high energy (43--68 MeV/nucleon) one-neutron removal reactions on a range of neutron-rich psd-shell nuclei (Z = 5--9, A = 12--25) has been undertaken. The inclusive longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions for the core fragments, together with the cross sections have been measured for breakup on a carbon target. Momentum distributions for reactions on tantalum were also measured for a subset of nuclei. An extended version of the Glauber model incorporating second order noneikonal corrections to the JLM parametrisation of the optical potential has been used to describe the nuclear breakup, whilst the Coulomb dissociation is treated within first order perturbation theory. The projectile structure has been taken into account via shell model calculations employing the psd-interaction of Warburton and Brown. Both the longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions, together with the integrated cross sections were well reproduced by these calculations and spin-parity assignments are thus proposed for $^{15}$B, $^{17}$C, $^{19-21}$N, $^{21,23}$O, $^{23-25}$F. In addition to the large spectroscopic amplitudes for the $\nu2$s$_{1/2}$ intruder configuration in the N=9 isotones,$^{14}$B and $^{15}$C, significant $\nu2$s$_{1/2}^2$ admixtures appear to occur in the ground state of the neighbouring N=10 nuclei $^{15}$B and $^{16}$C. Similarly, crossing the N=14 subshell, the occupation of the $\nu2$s$_{1/2}$ orbital is observed for $^{23}$O, $^{24,25}$F. Analysis of the longitudinal and transverse momentum distributions reveals that both carry spectroscopic information, often of a complementary nature. The general utility of high energy nucleon removal reactions as a spectroscopic tool is also examined.Comment: 50 pages, 19 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

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The breaking of the N=8 shell-model magic number in the 12Be ground state has been determined to include significant occupancy of the intruder d-wave orbital. This is in marked contrast with all other N=8 isotones, both more and less exotic than 12Be. The occupancies of the [FORMULA: SEE TEXT]orbital and the [FORMULA: SEE TEXT], intruder orbital were deduced from a measurement of neutron removal from a high-energy 12Be beam leading to bound and unbound states in 11Be.

Resonances in the unbound nucleus 11 N have been studied, using the resonance scattering reaction 10 Cϩp. The data give evidence for three states above the 10 Cϩp threshold with energies 1.30, 2.04, and 3.72 MeV. These states can be interpreted, in a potential-model analysis, as the ground state and the first two excited states with spin-parity 1/2 ϩ , 1/2 Ϫ , and 5/2 ϩ arising from the shell-model orbitals 1s 1/2 , 0p 1/2 , and 0d 5/2. A narrow state superposed on a broad structure found at higher energy could be interpreted as the mirror state of the 3/2 Ϫ in 11 Be shifted down in energy. This shift would suggest a large radius of the potential. ͓S0556-2813͑96͒50110-X͔

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