Decay of Oxygen 20

Abstract

The decay of O/sup 20/ produced by 2.66-Mev tritons in ant O/sup 18/ (95% enriched) gas target was studied. A computer analysis of a mixture of O/sup 20/-F/sup 20/ corrected for background yielded a halflife of 12.4 plus or minus 0.1 sec. Using the measured F/sup a20/ half life of 11.2 sec, the half life of 0/ sup 20/ was found to be 13.5 plus or minus 1.0 sec. (B.O.G.)