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    Alpha particle clustering plays a significant role in lighter nuclei. Here the authors study the exotic 5α gas-like clustering state of 20Ne, that is 5α condensate state.

    • Bo Zhou
    • , Yasuro Funaki
    •  & Taiichi Yamada

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    It is interesting and important to understand how the properties of nuclei and their stability change with temperature. Here the authors report their theoretical study of hot nuclei and the drip lines that limit the nuclear existence at finite temperature.

    • Ante Ravlić
    • , Esra Yüksel
    •  & Nils Paar

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    Carbon (12C) nucleus has interesting characteristics including the existence of the Hoyle state. Here the authors discuss the structure of the nuclear states of 12C by using nuclear lattice effective field theory.

    • Shihang Shen
    • , Serdar Elhatisari
    •  & Ulf-G. Meißner

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    Halo-structured nuclei are examples of many-body open quantum system. Here the authors use a complete kinematics measurement and find an elastic breakup of proton halo nucleus 8B.

    • L. Yang
    • , C. J. Lin
    •  & F. P. Zhong

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    Precisely calculating differences between muon- and electron-neutrino interactions is difficult, but is vital for correctly interpreting neutrino oscillation experiments. Here, the authors determine the effect of electromagnetic quantum corrections in the predicted ratio of ve and vμ cross sections.

    • Oleksandr Tomalak
    • , Qing Chen
    •  & Kevin S. McFarland

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    Quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories are in principle scalable, but their extension to dynamically coupled matter has proven difficult. In this work, the authors use a variational quantum eigensolver to simulate a non-Abelian LGT including the effects of both gauge fields and dynamical fermions.

    • Yasar Y. Atas
    • , Jinglei Zhang
    •  & Christine A. Muschik

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    Laser spectroscopic measurements of isotopes near the doubly-magic 100-Sn are challenging due to difficulties in their production. Here the authors measure the ground state charge radius of the proton-rich 96-Ag isotope and find a discontinuity in the nuclear size when crossing the neutron number N equal to 50.

    • M. Reponen
    • , R. P. de Groote
    •  & I. D. Moore

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    The charge radius of nucleons provides information about their structure. Here the authors present a method, based values of neutron electric form factors, to determine the charge radius of the neutron and provide information on improving the uncertainty of neutron charge radius measurements

    • H. Atac
    • , M. Constantinou
    •  & N. Sparveris

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    Second order effects can play an important role in highlighting nuclear structure properties. Here, the authors show how the second-order nuclear transitions in the form of double-gamma decay in 137Ba help understanding atomic nuclei.

    • P.-A. Söderström
    • , L. Capponi
    •  & T. Petruse

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    Thermonuclear fusion of nuclei of deuterium and tritium may provide the energy for the future and spin polarization is a potential mechanism for enhancing the nuclear reaction. Here the authors predict the enhanced DT fusion rate using chiral effective field theory and ab initio calculations.

    • Guillaume Hupin
    • , Sofia Quaglioni
    •  & Petr Navrátil

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    Magic numbers are associated with the stability of atomic nuclei. Here, the authors analyse the proton radii, binding energies and electric quadrupole transition rates of neutron-rich carbon isotopes at proton number six and use nuclear structure models to support the magic number Z = 6.

    • D. T. Tran
    • , H. J. Ong
    •  & T. Yamamoto

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    The large data generated in heavy-ion collision experiments require careful analysis to understand the physics. Here the authors use the deep-learning method to sort equation of states in QCD transition and analyze the simulated data sets mimicking the heavy-ion collision experiments.

    • Long-Gang Pang
    • , Kai Zhou
    •  & Xin-Nian Wang

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