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The Airy structure of the nuclear rainbow and prerainbow in inelastic and elastic $\alpha+^{16}$O scattering is studied with the coupled channel method using a folding potential derived from the microscopic wave functions of $^{16}$O. The…
We present an excited-state-specific coupled-cluster approach in which both the molecular orbitals and cluster amplitudes are optimized for an individual excited state. The theory is formulated via a pseudoprojection of the traditional…
Simulations of the elastic strain fields for double Ge/Si quantum dots located on the same wetting layer are carried out. The cluster approximation is used for the atomistic model based on the Keating potential. The spatial distributions of…
$\alpha$ decaying states of $^{44, 46, 52}$Ti were investigated with angular correlation functions between $t$ and $\alpha$ with the $^{40, 42, 48}$Ca($^7$Li, $t\alpha$)$^{40, 42, 48}$Ca reactions at E = 26.0 MeV. Many $\alpha$ cluster…
The robust (spin and isospin zero) $\alpha$-particle remains one of the best projectiles to probe the nuclear isoscalar excitations. In the present work, a microscopic folding model analysis of the \ac inelastic scattering to the 2$^+$…
The extensive elastic $^{16}$O+$^{12}$C scattering data measured at low energies show consistently an oscillating enhancement of the elastic cross section at backward angles that is difficult to describe within the conventional optical…
The alpha-cluster model is based on two assumptions that the proton-neutron pair interactions are responsible for adherence between alpha-clusters and that the NN-interaction in the alpha-clusters is isospin independent. It allows one to…
The elastic $\alpha$-$^{12}$C scattering at low energies is studied employing an effective field theory in which the $\alpha$ and $^{12}$C states are treated as elementary-like fields. We discuss scales of the theory at stellar energy…
We present coupled-cluster computations of nuclei with neutron number $N=50$ "south" of $^{78}$Ni using nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory. We find an erosion of the magic number $N=50$ toward…
We report an inelastic neutron scattering (INS) study under a magnetic field on the frustrated molecular spin cluster $V_{15}$. Several field-dependent transitions are observed and provide a comprehensive understanding of the low-energy…
The experimental data on elastic and inelastic scattering of 270 MeV 3He particles to several low lying states in 90Zr, 116Sn and 208Pb are analyzed within the double folding model (DFM). Fermi density distribution (FDD) of target nuclei is…
The coupled-cluster method is applied to the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic XXZ model on a square lattice by employing an approximation which contains two-body long-range correlations and high-order four-body local correlations. Improvement is…
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…
We investigate properties of bound and resonance states in the $_{\Lambda}^{9}$Be nucleus. To reveal the nature of these states, we use a three-cluster $2\alpha+\Lambda$ microscopic model. The model incorporates Gaussian and oscillator…
The $^{4}$He nucleus is a well bound and highly correlated four-nucleon system that is also found in form of $\alpha$-clusters as substructure in nuclear many-body systems. The standard single-particle shell model cannot represent these…
A two-cluster microscopic model is applied to study elastic alpha-alpha scattering and resonance structure of $^{8}$Be. The model is an algebraic version of the Resonating Group Method, which makes use complete set of oscillator functions…
We consider two-nucleon scattering close to threshold. Partial-wave amplitudes are obtained by an analytic extrapolation of subthreshold reaction amplitudes calculated in a relativistic formulation of chiral perturbation theory. The…
The nuclear equation of state is explored with the constrained HFB approach for self conjugate nuclei. It is found that beyond a certain low, more or less universal density, those nuclei spontaneously cluster into A/4 alpha particles with A…
There is a deep astrophysical interest in the structure of $^{19}$F states close to the alpha decay threshold. The nuclear structure of these states is important for understanding of the development of $\alpha$ clustering in the $^{20}$Ne…