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• Description of continuum structures in a discrete basis: Three-body resonances and two-nucleon decays

  Jesús Casal, Manuela Rodríguez-Gallardo, José M. Arias, Joaquín Gómez-Camacho, Lorenzo Fortunato, Andrea Vitturi

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 036 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Weakly bound and unbound three-body nuclei are studied by using the pseudostate method within the hyperspherical formalism. After introducing the theoretical framework, the method is applied first to the $\boldsymbol{^9}$Be nucleus, showing a good agreement with the available data for its low-lying dipole response. Then, recent results on the structure and decay of the two-neutron emitters $\boldsymbol{^{26}}$O and $\boldsymbol{^{16}}$Be are presented. In particular, the role of the $\boldsymbol{n}$-$\boldsymbol{n}$ correlation in shaping their properties is discussed.

  2 citations

• How to determine the shape of nuclear molecules with polarized gamma-rays

  Lorenzo Fortunato

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 035 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  A method has been recently proposed to establish the geometry of the alpha-cluster arrangement in $^{12}$C making use of polarized gamma-rays. The ratio of intensities of scattered radiation at 90 degrees along and perpendicular to the initial direction of the electric field vector, called depolarization ratio, is a key quantity that allows to underpin the nature of totally symmetric modes of vibrations. This allows to connect with the underlying point-group structure and therefore to the geometric shape of the nuclear molecule. This method is reviewed for $^{12}$C and extended to other configurations, such as three unequal clusters and four identical clusters (e.g. $^{16}$O).

  1 citation

• Beryllium-9 in cluster effective field theory

  Elena Filandri, Paolo Andreatta, Carlo A. Manzata, Chen Ji, W. Leidemann, G. Orlandini

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 034 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  We study the 9 Be ground-state energy with non-local αn and αα potentials derived from Cluster Effective Field Theory. The short-distance dependence of the interaction is regulated with a momentum cutoff. The potential parameters are fitted to reproduce scattering length and effective range. We implement such potential models in a Non-Symmetrized Hyperspherical Harmonics (NSHH) code in momentum space. In addition we calculate ground-state energies of various alpha nuclei. Work is in progress in view of the calculation of the photodisintegration of 9 Be with the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method.

  1 citation

• Few-body reactions investigated with the Trojan Horse Method

  Roberta Spartà, Giuseppe G. Rapisarda, Claudio Spitaleri, M. La Cognata, Rosario G. Pizzone, S. Romano, Aurora Tumino

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 033 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The Trojan Horse Method is an indirect method to measure reaction cross sections at energies of interest for nuclear astrophysics, exploiting the nuclei clustering properties. Here it is presented with its general features and detailed for the case of the 2H(d,p)3H and 2H(d,n)3He measurements, where interesting results for astrophysics and energy fusion power plants have been obtained.

• Application of the JISP16 potential to the nucleon induced deuteron breakup process at E=13 MeV and E=65 MeV

  Volodymyr Soloviov1, Jacek Golak, Roman Skibiński, Kacper Topolnicki, and Henryk Witała

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 032 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The JISP16 nucleon-nucleon potential has been applied to investigations of the nucleon induced deuteron breakup reaction at the incoming nucleon laboratory energies E = 13 MeV and E = 65 MeV. We have found that for the studied process the JISP16 force gives a description of the exclusive cross section, which is generally similar to the ones obtained with the standard realistic nucleon-nucleon AV18 interaction. However, there are some regions of the phase space where the differential cross sections predicted by the JISP16 and AV18 models, differ by more than 100 %. These special kinematical configurations may possibly be useful to refit the JISP16 force parameters.

• Response functions and cross sections for inclusive neutrino scattering off $^2$H, $^3$H and $^3$He

  Alessandro Grassi, Jacek Golak, Roman Skibiński, Kacper Topolnicki, Henryk Witała, Hiroyuki Kamada, Laura Elisa Marcucci

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 031 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  For several decades there has been an interest in studying neutrino scattering on light nuclei, with the hope of increasing knowledge about the theory of weak interactions and electroweak unification. A study of several neutrino induced reactions on light nuclei ($^2$H, $^3$H and $^3$He) is presented here. The cross section for these reactions is evaluated using the nuclear response functions, which holds the information about the nuclear interactions and structure. This approach has been tested for break-up reactions on the deuteron before and is now extended to three-nucleon break-up reactions.

• The Hoyle Family: break-up measurements to probe α-condensation in light nuclei

  Robin Smith, Jack Bishop, Joel Hirst, Tzany Kokalova, Carl Wheldon

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 030 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The 12C Hoyle state is a candidate for α-condensation, due to its large volume and α-cluster structure. This paper discusses precision break-up measurements and how they can elucidate α-condensate structures. Two experiments are discussed in detail, firstly concerning the break-up of 12C and then the decays of heavier nuclei. With more theoretical input, and increasingly complex detector setups, precision break-up measurements can, in principle, provide insight into the structures of states in α-conjugate nuclei. At present, such searches have not delivered evidence for α-condensation in 12C or 16O.

• Exploring three-nucleon forces via three- and four-nucleon scattering

  Kimiko Sekiguchi

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 029 (2020) · published 26 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Three-nucleon force effects in three- and four-nucleon scattering are discussed from an experimental point of view.

• Muonic Lithium atoms: nuclear structure corrections to the Lamb shift

  Simone Salvatore Li Muli, Anna Poggialini, Sonia Bacca

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 028 (2020) · published 25 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  In view of the future plans to measure the Lamb shift in muonic Lithium atoms we address the microscopic theory of the $\mu$-$^6$Li$^{2+}$ and $\mu$-$^7$Li$^{2+}$ systems. The goal of the CREMA collaboration is to measure the Lamb shift to extract the charge radius with high precision and compare it to electron scattering data or atomic spectroscopy to see if interesting puzzles, such as the proton and deuteron radius puzzles, arise. For this experiment to be successful, theoretical information on the nuclear structure corrections to the Lamb shift is needed. For $\mu$-$^6$Li$^{2+}$ and $\mu$-$^7$Li$^{2+}$ there exist only estimates of nuclear structure corrections based on experimental data that suffer from very large uncertainties. We present the first steps towards an ab initio computation of these quantities using few-body techniques.

  3 citations

• Hyperons - a strange key to the strong interaction

  Karin Schoenning

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 027 (2020) · published 25 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Hyperons provide new angles on two of the most challenging problems in contempo- rary physics: a coherent and quantitative description of the strong interaction, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. In these proceedings, I will demonstrate the merits of hyperons as a diagnostic tool using two recent measurements by the BE- SIII experiment as an illustrative example. Furthermore, I will highlight the prospect of future hyperon studies with the next-generation experiment PAND