Low Energy Structures in Nuclear Reactions with 4n in the Final State

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We investigate a reaction model that describes a fast removal of the α particle from the ^{8}He nucleus with eventual emission of four neutrons. The obtained four neutron energy distribution allows one to explain the sharp low energy peak observed by studying the missing mass spectra of four neutrons in Duer etal. [Nature (London) 606, 678 (2022)NATUAS0028-083610.1038/s41586-022-04827-6], as a consequence of dineutron-dineutron correlations. The phenomenon of the emergence of a sharp low-energy peak in the four-neutron energy distribution should be more general and is expected in the decay of other systems containing a four-neutron halo.