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Searching for three-nucleon resonances 1 2 2 A. Cs´ot´o , H. Oberhummer , and R. Pichler 1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 2Institut f¨ur Kernphysik, Technische Universit¨at Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8–10, 1040 Vienna, Austria (February 9, 2008) 5 9 9 Abstract 1 t c O We search for three-neutron resonances which were predicted from pion dou- ble charge exchange experiments on 3He. All partial waves up to J = 5 are 9 nonresonant except the Jπ = 3 + 2 2 one, where we find a state at E = 14 MeV 1 energy with 13 MeV width. The parameters of the mirror state in the three- v 7 proton system are E = 15 MeV and Γ = 14 MeV. The possible existence of an 1 6 excited state in the triton, which was predicted from a H( He,α) experiment, 0 0 is also discussed. 1 5 PACS numbers: 21.45.+v, 24.30.Gd, 27.10.+h, 25.80.Gn 9 / h t - l c u n : v i X r a Typeset using REVT X E 1 I. INTRODUCTION One of the clearest indication of the spin dependence of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is the fact that there exi