Quasi-free Neutron Knockout Reaction Reveals a Small $s$-orbital Component in the Borromean Nucleus ${}^{17}$B

Z. H. Yang, Y. Kubota, A. Corsi +73

A kinematically complete quasi-free $(p,pn)$ experiment in inverse kinematics was performed to study the structure of the Borromean nucleus ${}^{17}$B, which had long been considered…