Shell-Model Calculations of β Decays in 18N

We investigate β decays of the neutron-rich nucleus ^18 N and the structure of the daughter nucleus ^18 O using the shell model. The reduced transition strengths B（GT） and branching ratios of the/3 decays in ^18 N are calculated in the psd and spsdpf shell spaces with the WBT interaction. The calculations in the two different spaces are compared. The psd calculations obtain a better agreement with the observation of the β-delayed neutron emission, which seems to show that the observed properties of ^18 N and ^18 O are mainly produced by one particle being excited from the p-shell to the sd-shell.