Search for the15Be ground state

A. Spyrou,1,2,* J. K. Smith,1,2 T. Baumann,1 B. A. Brown,1,2 J. Brown,3 G. Christian,1,2 P. A. DeYoung,4 N. Frank,5 S. Mosby,1,2 W. A. Peters,6,† A. Schiller,7 M. J. Strongman,1 M. Thoennessen,1,2 and J. A. Tostevin8 1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 2Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 3Department of Physics, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933, USA 4Department of Physics, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 49423, USA 5Department of Physics & Astronomy, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, 61201, USA 6Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA 7Department of Physics & Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA 8Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom (Received 1 July 2011; published 12 October 2011)