Two high-lying states in F15 and Ne16, unbound with respect to one-proton (1p) and two-proton (2p) emissions, have been observed in the fragmentation of Ne17 at intermediate energies. They undergo mainly sequential emissions of protons via intermediate states in O14 and F15 and have decay energies of 7.8(2) and 7.6(2) MeV, respectively. The widths of the newly observed states in F15 and Ne16 are much smaller than the Wigner limits for single-particle configurations, of 0.4(4) and 0.8(+8−4) MeV, respectively. In addition, narrow widths of 0.2(2) MeV are derived for two other high-lying states in F15 with Qp of 4.9 and 6.4 MeV, which match features of the recently predicted narrow odd-parity F15 states with two valence protons in the sd shell. All energies and widths have been obtained by analyzing angular correlations of the decay products, p−p−O14 and p−p−N13, whose trajectories have been measured by a tracking technique with silicon microstrip detectors.Received 15 April 2009DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.061301©2009 American Physical Society