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The container picture with two-alpha correlation for the ground state of $^{12}$C

Nuclear Theory 2014-10-21 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the single 0+0^+ THSR (Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R\"{o}pke) wave function which is extended to include 2α\alpha correlation is almost completely equivalent to the 3α\alpha wave function obtained as the full solution of 3α\alpha cluster model. Their squared overlap is as high as 98\% while it is 93\% if the 2α\alpha correlation is not included. This result implies that, by incorporating the 2α\alpha correlation in the 3α\alpha model, the ground state of 12^{12}C is describable in the container picture which is valid for the Hoyle state for which the 2α\alpha correlation is weak and a single 0+0^+ THSR wave function without 2α\alpha correlation is almost completely equivalent to the full solution of 3α\alpha cluster model.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2920,
  title  = {The container picture with two-alpha correlation for the ground state of $^{12}$C},
  author = {Bo Zhou and Yasuro Funaki and Akihiro Tohsaki and Hisashi Horiuchi and Zhongzhou Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2920},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures