“…Situated just above the proton threshold the 16.1 MeV 2 + state in 12 C has been the subject of numerous studies [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14] with the most recent compilation published in ref. [15] and a detailed review of the decay properties of the 16.1 MeV state given in ref.…”