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New Measurement of the Direct 3α Decay from the ^{12}C Hoyle State.
Excited states in certain atomic nuclei possess an unusual structure, where the dominant degrees of freedom are those of α clusters rather than individual nucleons. It has been proposed that the diffuse 3α system of the ^{12}C Hoyle state may behave like a Bose-Einstein condensate, where the α clusters maintain their bosonic identities. By measuring the decay of the Hoyle state into three α par...
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The excited state of the (12)C nucleus known as the "Hoyle state" constitutes one of the most interesting, difficult, and timely challenges in nuclear physics, as it plays a key role in the production of carbon via fusion of three alpha particles in red giant stars. In this Letter, we present ab initio lattice calculations which unravel the structure of the Hoyle state, along with evidence for ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0146-6410
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2014.06.001