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Using a unique two-arm detector system for heavy ions (the BRS, binary reaction spectrometer) coincident fission events have been measured from the decay of $^{60}$Zn compound nuclei formed at 88MeV excitation energy in the reactions with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-12-18 W. Von Oertzen , V. Zherebchevsky , B. Gebauer , C. Schulz , S. Thummerer , D. Kamanin , G. Royer , T. Wilpert

Nuclei around $N\approx Z\approx 40$ are strongly deformed and exhibit coexistence of shapes. These phenomena have challenged nuclear models. Here we perform ab initio coupled-cluster computations of low-lying collective states and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-30 B. S. Hu , Z. H. Sun , G. Hagen , T. Papenbrock

Refracton of particles (nucleons, nuclei, $\gamma$-quanta) in matter with polarized protons (nuclei) results in revealing coherent quasi-optical phenomenon of nuclear spin precession of particles (nuclei) in the pseudomagnetic field of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Vladimir Baryshevsky

Coupling of cluster and deformed structures are important for dynamics of nuclear structure. Threshold energy has been discussed to explain cluster structures coupling to deformed states but relation between threshold energy and excitation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Yasutaka Taniguchi

We give an overview of results and prospects of nuclear clustering studies on the grounds of the observations of interactions of light stable and radioactive nuclei with an initial energy above 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsions. Thank to the…

A recent high-resolution $\alpha$, $X$-ray, and $\gamma$-ray coincidence-spectroscopy experiment offered first glimpse of excitation schemes of isotopes along $\alpha$-decay chains of $Z=115$. To understand these observations and to make…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-09-05 Yue Shi , D. E. Ward , B. G. Carlsson , J. Dobaczewski , W. Nazarewicz , I. Ragnarsson , D. Rudolph

The formation of alpha-clusters in nuclei close to the decay thresholds is discussed. These states can be considered to be boson-condensates, which are formed in a second order phase transition in a mixture of nucleons and alpha-particles.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-18 Wolfram von Oertzen

We study symmetric and asymmetric cumulants as well as rapidity-even dipolar flow in ${}^{16}$O+${}^{16}$O collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$~GeV to explore $\alpha$-clustering phenomena in light nuclei within the viscous relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Kaiser Shafi , Sandeep Chatterjee

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. As the limits of nuclear binding is approached near the neutron- and proton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Z. H. Sun , A. Ekström , C. Forssén , G. Hagen , G. R. Jansen , T. Papenbrock

The hyperfine spectra of $^{51,53-64}$Mn were measured in two experimental runs using collinear laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE, CERN. Laser spectroscopy was performed on the atomic $3d^5\ 4s^2\ ^{6}\text{S}_{5/2}\rightarrow 3d^5\ 4s4p\…

The framework of nuclear energy density functionals is applied to a study of the formation and evolution of cluster states in nuclei. The relativistic functional DD-ME2 is used in triaxial and reflection-asymmetric relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 J. P. Ebran , E. Khan , T. Niksic , D. Vretenar

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

The 46Ti compound nucleus, as populated by the fusion-evaporation reaction 27Al + 19F at the bombarding energy of 144 MeV, has been investigated by charged particle spectroscopy using the multidetector array ICARE at the VIVITRON tandem…

Low-energy vibrational excitations associated with the fluctuation of quadrupole deformed shapes are discussed within the frame of state-of-the-art Configuration Interaction calculations, actually performed via the Quasi-particle Vacua…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Y. Tsunoda , T. Otsuka , N. Shimizu , T. Duguet , Y. Utsuno , T. Abe

The initial-state geometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a novel probe to nuclear cluster structure. For $^{20}$Ne, a novel approach is proposed to distinguish between the cluster configurations (5$\alpha$ versus $\alpha +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Pei Li , Bo Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma

Nuclear collisions at intermediate, relativistic, and ultra-relativistic energies offer unique opportunities to study in detail manifold fragmentation and clustering phenomena in dense nuclear matter. At intermediate energies, the well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Scherer , Horst Stocker

We present a model for electron- and neutrino-scattering off nucleons and nuclei focussing on the quasielastic and resonance region. The lepton-nucleon reaction is described within a relativistic formalism that includes, besides…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-03 T. Leitner , O. Buss , L. Alvarez-Ruso , U. Mosel

The theory of nuclear excitations involving nucleon resonances is revisited and significantly extended to asymmetric nuclear matter and higher P- and S-wave $N^*$ resonances. Excited states of are described as superpositions of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Horst Lenske

Aspects of nuclear structure in alpha-conjugate nuclei have long been associated with alpha clustering, including the existence of superdeformed bands. In this paper, an alpha-particle inelastic scattering experiment investigating the…

The response to the addition of a $\Lambda$ hyperon is investigated for the deformed states such as superdeformation in $^{41}_\Lambda$Ca, $^{46}_\Lambda $Sc and $^{48}_\Lambda$Sc. In the present study, we use the antisymmetrized molecular…