Alpha-clustering effects in heavy nuclei

doi:10.1007/s11467-018-0846-3

Frontiers of Physics

2018, Vol. 13

Issue (6): 132110 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-018-0846-3

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Alpha-clustering effects in heavy nuclei

Zhongzhou Ren¹(

), Bo Zhou²(

)

¹. School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
². Institute for International Collaboration, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan

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The study of cluster structures in light nuclei is extending to the heavy nuclei in these years. As for the stable N = Z nuclei, from the lighter ⁸Be, ¹²C nuclei to the heavier ²⁰Ne and even the ⁴⁰Ca and ⁴⁴Ti medium nuclei, the α cluster structures have been well studied and confirmed. In heavy nuclei, due to the dominated mean field, the existence of α cluster structure is not clear as light nuclei but some clues were found for indicating the core+α cluster structure in some nuclei, in particular, the ²⁰⁸Pb+α structure in ²¹²Po. We review some recent progress about the theoretical and experimental explorations of the α-clustering effects in heavy nuclei. We also discuss the possible α cluster structure of heavy nuclei from the view of α decay.

Key words： α cluster structure nuclear cluster model α correlations α decay

收稿日期: 2018-07-31 出版日期: 2018-12-13

Corresponding Author(s): Zhongzhou Ren,Bo Zhou

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. [J]. Frontiers of Physics, 2018, 13(6): 132110.
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