STRUCTURE OF Na-26 VIA A NOVEL TECHNIQUE USING (d, p gamma) WITH A RADIOACTIVE Na-25 BEAM

States in Na-26 were populated in the (d, p gamma) reaction, induced by bombarding deuterium target nuclei with an intense reaccelerated beam of Na-25 ions from the ISAC2 accelerator at TRIUMF. Gamma-rays were recorded in coincidence with protons and used to extract differential cross sections for 21 states up to the neutron decay threshold of 5 MeV. Results for levels below 3 MeV are discussed in detail and compared with shell model calculations and with previous work. The angular distributions of decay gamma-rays were measured for individual states and are compared to theoretically calculated distributions, highlighting some issues for future work.