§5.1.4 Discussion

Most of these resulting averages seem very reasonable. In general, it may be observed that the Bayesian averages are not very different from the standard averages. They are more conservative because of the skepticism about the measurement error bars introduced in the averaging procedure. All subsequent discussion will refer to the results from the standard method of averaging.

The error bars on the present measurement represent a slight improvement over the previously reported ¹⁹Ne(³He,t) coincidence measurements [Magnus, Smith et al. 1990; Utku, Ross et al. 1998]. Recently reported measurements through different reaction channels have already reported better precision, though [Bardayan, Blackmon et al. 2001; Rehm, Wuosma et al. 2002; Davids, van den Berg et al. 2003; Rehm 2003]. The precision of the present measurement could have been much improved by the addition of charged particle detectors near θ_lab=90°, because of the additional efficiency as well as better constraints on the angular distribution fits.

The measurement result reported here for the E_x=6.742 MeV state, as mentioned in §4.6.1

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