Cluster structure formation in nuclei is among the most exciting phenomena of current nuclear physics, where a variety of novel cluster structures has been discovered. Some light proton and neutron rich nuclei can exhibit large radial extension and exotic structures in which the valence nucleons extend outside the binding potential. The possibility of producing radioactive beams out of the short-lived nuclei offers new and unique opportunities for research in the frontiers of nuclear physics. The strong synergy between structure and nuclear reactions has provided the possibility to investigate even further this phenomenon. Elastic, transfer, breakup, and fusion reactions induced by light exotic radioactive beams are very powerful tools to study their properties since it can reveal details of their unusual features. Understanding the influence of direct reactions, such as breakup, in the elastic and fusion processes as well as the role of nuclear structure in the reaction mechanisms is still a challenge for both theorists and experimentalists.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect and assemble a series of articles on the clustering phenomenon in nuclei, as well as its importance to the reaction mechanisms. Articles on direct reactions, where the role of the cluster structure is evidenced, are also very welcome. Such a comprehensive assembly of papers will help the understanding of the field and provide guidance for future directions in advancing of the clustering phenomena in nuclei. We welcome submission of both short (B-Type) and long (A-Type) review articles and original research on the following topics:
• Elastic scattering of light to medium mass projectiles at low to intermediate energies.
• Transfer, breakup and knockout reactions induced by light to medium mass projectiles at low to intermediate energies (experimental and theoretical models)
• Multi nucleon transfer reactions from sub-barrier to above-barrier energies.
• Fusion and/or incomplete fusion studies at low excitation energies
• Clustering in astrophysics
• Clustering in nuclear matter and neutron stars
• Cluster decay
• Analogues of nuclear clustering in quark and atomic systems
• Clustering in hypernuclei
• Few-body cluster structure
• Development of nuclear instrumentation and detectors
• Experimental and detection methods.
• New approaches on data analysis
Cluster structure formation in nuclei is among the most exciting phenomena of current nuclear physics, where a variety of novel cluster structures has been discovered. Some light proton and neutron rich nuclei can exhibit large radial extension and exotic structures in which the valence nucleons extend outside the binding potential. The possibility of producing radioactive beams out of the short-lived nuclei offers new and unique opportunities for research in the frontiers of nuclear physics. The strong synergy between structure and nuclear reactions has provided the possibility to investigate even further this phenomenon. Elastic, transfer, breakup, and fusion reactions induced by light exotic radioactive beams are very powerful tools to study their properties since it can reveal details of their unusual features. Understanding the influence of direct reactions, such as breakup, in the elastic and fusion processes as well as the role of nuclear structure in the reaction mechanisms is still a challenge for both theorists and experimentalists.
The goal of this Research Topic is to collect and assemble a series of articles on the clustering phenomenon in nuclei, as well as its importance to the reaction mechanisms. Articles on direct reactions, where the role of the cluster structure is evidenced, are also very welcome. Such a comprehensive assembly of papers will help the understanding of the field and provide guidance for future directions in advancing of the clustering phenomena in nuclei. We welcome submission of both short (B-Type) and long (A-Type) review articles and original research on the following topics:
• Elastic scattering of light to medium mass projectiles at low to intermediate energies.
• Transfer, breakup and knockout reactions induced by light to medium mass projectiles at low to intermediate energies (experimental and theoretical models)
• Multi nucleon transfer reactions from sub-barrier to above-barrier energies.
• Fusion and/or incomplete fusion studies at low excitation energies
• Clustering in astrophysics
• Clustering in nuclear matter and neutron stars
• Cluster decay
• Analogues of nuclear clustering in quark and atomic systems
• Clustering in hypernuclei
• Few-body cluster structure
• Development of nuclear instrumentation and detectors
• Experimental and detection methods.
• New approaches on data analysis
