Discovery of a 6/sup -/, T=1 resonance in /sup 24/Mg via high-resolution inelastic electron scattering

The unique high-resolution and high-energy features of the electron-scattering facility at the MIT-Bates Accelerator were used to locate a dominant narrow resonance at 15.045 +- 0.035 MeV in /sup 24/Mg. A spin-parity assignment of 6/sup -/ and an isospin T=1 assignment were made. The M6 form factor was measured and compared to the prediction of a theoretical calculation which uses the open-shell random-phase approximation on a shell-model ground state for /sup 24/Mg.