Recent developments of physics of nuclear clustering are discussed. Our discussions are
mostly focussed on structural problems because the characteristic feature of the recent …

An exclusive measurement has been made of the Coulomb dissociation of the two-neutron
halo nucleus Li 11 at 70 MeV/nucleon at RIKEN. Strong low-energy (soft) E 1 excitation is …

The first measurement of the elastic scattering of the halo nucleus Li 11 and its core Li 9 on
Pb 208 at energies near the Coulomb barrier is presented. The Li 11+ Pb 208 elastic …

The structure of exotic nuclei has only been studied from around 1985, because they are
very short lived and because before that, it was not possible to produce and deliver them as …

The electric dipole (E1) response of exotic nuclei, with a focus on the soft E1 excitation of
halo nuclei and the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) of neutron-skin nuclei, is reviewed here …

We studied the roles of the tensor and pairing correlations on the halo formation in Li 11 with
an extended Li 9+ n+ n model. We first solved the ground state of Li 9 in the shell-model …

We present a detailed analysis of the elastic scattering and breakup channel for the reaction
of Li 11 on Pb 208 at incident laboratory energies of 24.3 and 29.8 MeV, measured at the …

The Borromean nucleus 17Ne (15O+ p+ p) is investigated by using the hyperspheric
adiabatic expansion for a three-body system. The measured size of 15O and the low-lying …

I examine the history and current state of knowledge of the structure of so-called “exotic” light
nuclei with Z= 2-4, from 7 He to 16 Be. I review the available experimental information and …

We assume an environment of neutrons and α-particles of given density and temperature
where nuclear syntheses into 6 He, 9 Be and 12 C are possible. We investigate the resulting …