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Here we present the fundamental properties of the nuclear cluster of the Milky Way. First, we derive its structural properties by constructing a density map of the central 1000'' using extinction-corrected star counts. We can describe the…

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

We investigate $\alpha$-like correlations in $^{20}$Ne. A quartet of nucleons (different spin/isospin) is moving in a mean field produced by the $^{16}$O core nucleus. Improving the Thomas-Fermi model (local density approach), a shell model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 G. Röpke

This study theoretically considers the motion of N identical inelastic particles between two oscillating walls. The particles' average energy increases abruptly at certain critical filling fractions, wherein the system changes into a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-01-31 Fei Fang Chung , Sy-Sang Liaw , Wei Chun Chang

We describe a method for imposing the correct electron-nucleus (e-n) cusp in molecular orbitals expanded as a linear combination of (cuspless) Gaussian basis functions. Enforcing the e-n cusp in trial wave functions is an important asset in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Pierre-François Loos , Anthony Scemama , Michel Caffarel

Alpha clustering is an important dynamic in nuclear physics, with growing interest to its study in heavy nuclei in recent years. Theoretically, the microscopic cluster models taking nucleons as relevant degrees of freedom have been widely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Zhen Wang , Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren

Correlation functions as they can be observed in heavy-ion collisions using the femtoscopy technique are a powerful tool to study the interaction among different baryons or mesons. Specifically, the multi-nucleon correlation functions have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 Matthias Göbel , Alejandro Kievsky

The electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon have been calculated in a chiral constituent-quark model. The nucleon wave functions are obtained by solving a Schr\"odinger-type equation for a semi-relativistic Hamiltonian with an effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Boffi , P. Demetriou , M. Radici , R. F. Wagenbrunn

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

We investigate the role of intrinsic nuclear geometry of $^{20}$Ne nucleus in particle production in small collision systems. Discrete geometrical representations of $^{20}$Ne, including bi-pyramidal $\alpha$-cluster structure in two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Deependra Sharma , Arpit Singh , Sadhana Dash

Correlations in the nuclear wave-function beyond the mean-field or Hartree-Fock approximation are very important to describe basic properties of nuclear structure. Various approaches to account for such correlations are described and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. Müther , A. Polls

The structures, the electromagnetic transitions, and the beta decay strengths of exotic nuclei are investigated within an extended cluster model. We start by deriving an effective nuclear Hamiltonian within the $S_2$ correlation operator.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Tomaselli , T. Kühl , D. Ursescu , S. Fritzsche

The density functional theory of nuclear structure provides a many-particle wave function that is useful for static properties, but an extension of the theory is necessary to describe correlation effects or other dynamic properties. Here we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch , L. Fang , B. Sabbey

Background The intense current experimental interest in studying the structure of the deuteron and using it to enable accurate studies of neutron structure motivate us to examine the four-dimensional space-time nature of the nuclear wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-27 John D. Terry , Gerald A. Miller

The classical nucleation theory (CNT) concept of a nucleus as a fragment of the bulk new phase fails for nanosized nuclei. An extension of CNT taking into account the properties of the transition region between coexisting bulk phases is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-09 Nikolay V. Alekseechkin

With a view toward addressing the explosive growth in the computational demands of nuclear structure and reactions modeling, we develop a novel quantum algorithm for neutron-nucleus simulations with general potentials, which provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Soorya Rethinasamy , Ethan Guo , Alexander Wei , Mark M. Wilde , Kristina D. Launey

The study of the hyperfine anomaly of neutron rich nuclei, in particular, neutron halo nuclei, can give a very specific and unique way to measure their neutron distribution and confirm a halo structure. The hyperfine structure anomaly in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-18 Y. L. Parfenova , Ch. Leclercq-Willain

Antisymmetrized molecular dynamics with quantum branching is generalized so as to allow finite time duration of the unrestricted coherent mean field propagation which is followed by the decoherence into wave packets. In this new model, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Akira Ono , S. Hudan , A. Chbihi , J. D. Frankland

Some nonlinear aspects of a cluster phenomenon in nuclei are considered using of cubic Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation and Korteveg de Vries Equation. We discuss the following possible nonlinear effects: i) the decribing clusters as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 V. G. Kartavenko , K. A. Gridnev , W. Greiner

In a previous paper we introduced a new method for simulating collisional gravitational $N$-body systems with linear time scaling on $N$, based on the Multi-Particle Collision (MPC) approach. This allows us to simulate globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-04 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Alicia Simon-Petit , Suk-Jin Yoon