Microscopic clustering in light nuclei

M Freer, H Horiuchi, Y Kanada-En'yo, D Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This review examines the tendency of light nuclei to exhibit clustering, where correlations
between nucleons result in the formation of precipitates, typically α particles. The …

Ab initio no core shell model

BR Barrett, P Navrátil, JP Vary - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Motivated by limitations of the Bloch–Horowitz–Brandow perturbative approach to nuclear
structure we have developed the non-perturbative ab initio no core shell model (NCSM) …

Gluons and the quark sea at high energies: Distributions, polarization, tomography

D Boer, M Diehl, R Milner, R Venugopalan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2011 - arxiv.org
This report is based on a ten-week program on" Gluons and the quark sea at high-energies",
which took place at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle in Fall 2010. The principal aim …

Electromagnetic reactions on light nuclei

S Bacca, S Pastore - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Electromagnetic reactions on light nuclei are fundamental to advance our understanding of
nuclear structure and dynamics. The perturbative nature of the electromagnetic probes …

Modern ab initio approaches and applications in few-nucleon physics with A≥ 4

W Leidemann, G Orlandini - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an overview of the evolution of ab initio methods for few-nucleon systems with
A≥ 4, tracing the progress made that today allows precision calculations for these systems …

Ab initio benchmarks of neutrinoless double- decay in light nuclei with a chiral Hamiltonian

JM Yao, A Belley, R Wirth, T Miyagi, CG Payne… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We report ab initio benchmark calculations of nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for
neutrinoless double-β (0 ν β β) decays in light nuclei with mass numbers ranging from A= 6 …

Robust ab initio prediction of nuclear electric quadrupole observables by scaling to the charge radius

MA Caprio, PJ Fasano, P Maris - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Meaningful predictions for electric quadrupole (E 2) observables from ab initio nuclear
theory are necessary, if the ab initio description of collective correlations is to be confronted …

Probing ab initio emergence of nuclear rotation

MA Caprio, PJ Fasano, P Maris, AE McCoy… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Structural phenomena in nuclei, from shell structure and clustering to superfluidity and
collective rotations and vibrations, reflect emergent degrees of freedom. Ab initio theory …

Nuclear structure experiments along the neutron drip line

T Baumann, A Spyrou… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Invariant mass measurements and breakup reactions of neutron-rich nuclei have been
instrumental in the study of nuclear structure effects at the limit of nuclear existence. The …

Testing ab initio nuclear structure in neutron-rich nuclei: Lifetime measurements of second state in and

M Ciemała, S Ziliani, FCL Crespi, S Leoni, B Fornal… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
To test the predictive power of ab initio nuclear structure theory, the lifetime of the second 2+
state in neutron-rich O 20, τ (2 2+)= 150− 30+ 80 fs, and an estimate for the lifetime of the …