Study of Na-19 at SPIRAL

The excitation function for the elastic-scattering reaction p(Ne-18, p)Ne-18 was measured with the first radioactive beam from the SPIRAL facility at the GANIL laboratory and with a solid cryogenic hydrogen target. Several broad resonances have been observed, corresponding to new excited states in the unbound nucleus Na-19. In addition, two-proton emission events have been identified and are discussed.