DREB Conference 2024

The proton-induced $\alpha$ knockout reaction, ($p,p\alpha$), is a powerful probe of the $\alpha$ formation in nuclei. It has been shown that a modern theoretical calculation of the $\alpha$ amplitude in the $^{20}$Ne ground state combined with the ($p,p\alpha$) reaction calculation by the distorted wave impulse approximation can quantitatively reproduce the experimental data [1]. On the other...

While the independent particle picture that nucleons (protons and neutrons) move almost independently inside nuclei is well established, it is also known that several nucleons form a cluster and behave as a single entity in them. Nuclear clustering is a phenomenon that breaks the uniformity of nuclei and can be a key to elucidating the mechanism of alpha decay, determining the...

The signature of the coexistence between single-particle, cluster and collective degrees of freedom of nuclei in reactions is a timely issue.
These rich aspects of the nuclear structure have been standardly described by simple shell models, cluster and collective structure models respectively.
Ultimately, the complexity associated to the coexistence traces back to the bare NN and NNN...