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Nuclear symmetry energy is a fundamental quantity currently under intense investigation in both nuclear physics and astrophysics. The {\it softness} or {\it stiffness} of symmetry energy is still under debate and the extraction of symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-11 Shuo Yang , Ruijia Li , Chang Xu

In this contribution, I will discuss two topics related to the clustering of atomic nuclei. The first is dual character of the ground state. Recently, it was pointed out that the ground states of atomic nuclei have dual character of shell…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-12 M. Kimura

A series of findings in machine learning (ML) and decay theory are captured while exploring the role of deformation and preformation factors in {\alpha} decay. We provide a novel and practical paradigm for developing physics-driven machine…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Ruixiong Li , Jingyu Xiao , Hongfei Zhang , Nana Ma

Alpha clustering in nuclei is considered with the quartet model (QM) where four valence nucleons (the quartet) move on the top of the core (daughter) nucleus. In the QM approach, it is assumed that the intrinsic wave function of the quartet…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren , Gerd Röpke

The influence of alpha clustering on nuclear reaction dynamics is investigated using the giant dipole resonance (GDR) lineshape studies in the reactions 20Ne (Elab=145,160 MeV) + 12C and 20Ne (Elab=160 MeV) + 27Al, populating 32S and 47V,…

Several topics concerning nuclear structure and electromagnetic interactions of heavy nuclei are reviewed. These comprehend the deformed single-particle shell model, nuclear collective motion, symmetry breaking and approximate symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Alejandro Restrepo-Giraldo

A detailed study of $\alpha$-clusters decay is exhibited by incorporating crucial microscopic nuclear structure information into the estimations of half-life and preformation factor. For the first time, using the k-cross validation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Saxena , P. K. Sharma , Prafulla Saxena

Quartetting ($\alpha$-like clustering) occurs in low density matter ($\le 0.03$ fm$^{-3}$) which exists, e.g., at the surface of nuclei. It is of interest for the $\alpha$ preformation to calculate the $\alpha$ decay of heavy nuclei such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 G. Röpke , P. Schuck , C. Xu , Z. Ren , M. Lyu , B. Zhou , Y. Funaki , H. Horiuchi , A. Tohsaki , T. Yamada

Cluster radioactivity is the emission of a fragment heavier than $\alpha$ particle and lighter than mass 50. The range of clusters observed in experiments goes from $^{14}$C to $^{32}$Si while the heavy mass residue is always a nucleus in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Warda , L. M. Robledo

The possibility of the $^8$He and $^{9}$Li clusters in atomic nuclei is discussed. Until now most of the clusters in the conventional models have been limited to the closures of the three-dimensional harmonic oscillators, such as $^4$He,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 Naoyuki Itagaki , Tokuro Fukui , Junki Tanaka , Yuma Kikuchi

Three-nucleon interactions are a frontier in understanding and predicting the structure of strongly-interacting matter in laboratory nuclei and in the cosmos. We present results and discuss the status of first calculations with microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 A. Schwenk , J. D. Holt

A clustering aspect is explained for the $^9$Be nucleus in charged-lepton deep inelastic scattering. Nuclear modifications of the structure function $F_2$ are studied by the ratio $R_{\rm EMC} = F_2^A /F_2^D$, where $A$ and $D$ are a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Hirai , S. Kumano , K. Saito , T. Watanabe

In this review we discuss the current status of research in nuclear physics which is being carried out in different centers in the World. For this purpose we supply a short account of the development in the area which evolved over the last…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 C. A. Bertulani , M. S. Hussein

$Background$: The $\alpha$-cluster model was successful for describing spectroscopic properties of light nuclei near the shell closures. Evidences of the $\alpha$-cluster structure in $^{94}$Mo were shown, motivating the search for the same…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 M. A. Souza , H. Miyake

The cranked relativistic Hartree+Bogoliubov theory has been applied for a systematic study of the nuclei around 254No, the heaviest nuclei for which detailed spectroscopic data are available. The deformation, rotational response, pairing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Afanasjev , T. L. Khoo , S. Frauendorf , G. A. Lalazissis , I. Ahmad

A comprehensive study of favoured and unfavoured $\alpha$-decay, cluster decay, weak-decay along with spontaneous fission in undetected superheavy nuclei within the range for proton number 111$\leq$Z$\leq$118 and neutron number…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Jain , P. K. Sharma , S. K. Jain , Dashty T. Akrawy , G. Saxena

The exact treatment of nuclei starting from the constituent nucleons and the fundamental interactions among them has been a long-standing goal in nuclear physics. Above all nuclear scattering and reactions, which require the solution of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Sofia Quaglioni , Petr Navrátil , Robert Roth

Nucleon-nucleon scattering is studied to next-to-leading order in a partially-quenched extension of an effective field theory used to describe multi-nucleon systems in QCD. The partially-quenched nucleon-nucleon amplitudes will play an…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Silas R. Beane , Martin J. Savage

In this article we review the present status of alpha clustering in nuclear systems. First of all, an important aspect is condensation in nuclear matter. Second, the alpha container model, recently been proposed by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Peter Schuck , Yasuro Funaki , Hisashi Horiuchi , Gerd Roepke , Akihiro Tohsaki , Taiichi Yamada

It is only now, with low-frequency radio telescopes, long exposures with high-resolution X-ray satellites and gamma-ray telescopes, that we are beginning to learn about the physics in the periphery of galaxy clusters. In the coming years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Bruggen , A. Bykov , D. Ryu , H. Rottgering