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The relation between the monopole transition strength and existence of cluster structure in the excited states is discussed based on an algebraic cluster model. The structure of $^{12}$C is studied with a 3$\alpha$ model, and the wave…
The electric quadrupole transitions between $0^+$, $2^+$, and $4^+$ states in $^{12}$C are investigated in a $3\alpha$ model. The three-body wave functions are obtained by means of the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion method, and the…
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Radiative decay of the sub-threshold $1_1^-$ and $2_1^+$ states of $^{16}$O is studied in cluster effective field theory. The wave function normalization factors for initial and final states of the radiative decay amplitudes are deduced by…
Axial octupole and tetrahedral correlations in $^{80}$Zr and $^{98}$Zr have been investigated using the generator coordinate method, applied to a basis generated by Skyrme HF+BCS calculations. We focus on the possible presence of states…
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The coherent state model (CSM) is extended so that three negative parity bands are treated on equal footing with three positive parity bands. The six rotational bands are generated by projecting out angular momenta and parities from three…
The excited states in the odd-$A$ $^{197}$Tl nucleus have been studied by populating them using the $^{197}$Au($\alpha$, 4$n$)$^{197}$Tl reaction at the beam energy of 48 MeV. The $\gamma-\gamma$ coincidence data were taken using a…
The lifting of degenerate electronic states, in which multiple electronic states share the same energy, is a fundamental issue in the physics of crystalline solids. In real materials, this problem has been extensively studied in transition…
The ground and excited states of the 3H and 4He nuclei are studied in the framework of group-theoretical methods. Basis functions of the unitary scheme model corresponding to even numbers of quanta of excitation in the range from zero to…
Low-energy dipole excitations in ${}^{10}$Be were investigated based on the generator coordinate method with $\alpha + {}^6$He and $\alpha + \alpha + 2n$ cluster models. We obtained three $1^-$ states in $E_{x} < 15$~MeV, which show…
The beyond mean-field approach for low-lying hypernuclear states is extended by mixing the configurations associated with both single-particle and quadrupole-octupole collective excitations within the generator coordinate method based on a…
We determined the structures of silicon clusters in the 11-14 atom size range using the tight-binding molecular dynamics method. These calculations reveal that \Si{11} is an icosahedron with one missing cap, \Si{12} is a complete…
We provide a description of odd-odd self-conjugate nuclei in the sd shell in a formalism of collective quartets and pairs. Quartets are four-body structures carrying isospin T=0 while pairs can have either T=0 or T=1. Both quartets and…
The high-spin states in odd-odd $^{194}$Tl nucleus have been studied by populating them using the $^{185,187}$Re($^{13}$C, xn) reactions at 75 MeV of beam energy. $\gamma-\gamma$ coincidence measurement has been performed using the INGA…
The negative parity states of $^{11}$B and $^{11}$C were studied based on the calculations of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics(AMD). The calculations well reproduced the experimental strengths of Gamov-Teller(GT), $M1$ and monopole…
A cluster-transfer experiment of $^9\rm{Be}(^9\rm{Be},^{14}\rm{C}\rightarrow\alpha+^{10}\rm{Be})\alpha$ at an incident energy of 45 MeV was carried out in order to investigate the molecular structure in high-lying resonant states in…
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