Ab initio informed 20Ne(p, pα)16O reaction elucidates the emergence of alpha clustering from chiral potentials

We report on the first ab initio informed α knock-out reaction in the intermediate-mass region, with the aim to probe the underlying chiral potential and its impact on the emergence of alpha clustering in this mass region. The theoretical predictions of the α + 16 O clustering in the 20 Ne ground state, based on the ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model with continuum, yield a triple differential cross section for 20 Ne(p, p α ) 16 O that is in a remarkable agreement with the data. This allows us to examine predictions of surface and in-medium α -cluster features that emerge from the underlying realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction with no parameters fitted to nuclear data beyond the two-body system, and to compare these to the successful antisymmetrized molecular dynamics approach.

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Physics Letters B
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2025-05-09
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139563
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Nuclear physics research studies
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Abstract

We report on the first ab initio informed α knock-out reaction in the intermediate-mass region, with the aim to probe the underlying chiral potential and its impact on the emergence of alpha clustering in this mass region. The theoretical predictions of the α + 16 O clustering in the 20 Ne ground state, based on the ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model with continuum, yield a triple differential cross section for 20 Ne(p, p α ) 16 O that is in a remarkable agreement with the data. This allows us to examine predictions of surface and in-medium α -cluster features that emerge from the underlying realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction with no parameters fitted to nuclear data beyond the two-body system, and to compare these to the successful antisymmetrized molecular dynamics approach.

Physics Letters BVol. 866
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JP), Louisiana State University (US), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US), Kyushu University (JP), Czech Academy of Sciences, Nuclear Physics Institute (CZ), Advanced Science Research Center (JP), Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ), Michigan State University (US), The University of Osaka (JP)
National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Grantová Agentura České Republiky, Office of Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nuclear Physics, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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