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Alpha Cluster Formation and Decay in Quartetting Wave Function Approach

Nuclear Theory 2017-08-02 v2

Abstract

We present a microscopic calculation of alpha-cluster formation in heavy nuclei by using the quartetting wave function approach. The interaction of the quartet with the core nucleus is taken in local density approximation. The alpha-cluster formation is found to be particularly sensitive to the interplay of the mean field felt by the alpha-cluster and the Pauli blocking as a consequence of antisymmetrization. The striking feature of alpha-cluster formation probability across the major shell closures of 82 protons and 126 neutrons is reproduced. The shell (or subshell) effects on the alpha-cluster formation in superheavy nuclei are also analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00391,
  title  = {Alpha Cluster Formation and Decay in Quartetting Wave Function Approach},
  author = {Chang Xu and G. Ropke and P. Schuck and Zhongzhou Ren and Y. Funaki and H. Horiuchi and A. Tohsaki and T. Yamada and Bo Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00391},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, discussion added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C

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