Microscopic clustering in light nuclei

By Martin Freer, H. Horiuchi, Y. Kanada-En’yo, Dean Lee, U. Meissner. Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017

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We review recent experimental and theoretical progress in understanding the microscopic details of clustering in light nuclei. We discuss recent experimental results on $\alpha$-conjugate systems, molecular structures in neutron-rich nuclei, and constraints for ab initio theory. We then examine nuclear clustering in a wide range of theoretical methods, including the resonating group and generator coordinate methods, antisymmetrized molecular dynamics, Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-R\"opke wave function and container model, no-core shell model methods, continuum quantum Monte Carlo, and lattice effective field theory.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Spectroscopy

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