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Alpha Chain Structures of 12C

Suk-Ho Hong, Suk-Joon Lee

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9903001

Abstract

N-αstructures of light nuclei with axial symmetry are studied using relativistic Hartree approximation. Metastable excited states are searched in a configuration space which allows linear alpha chain structures. As a result, it is shown that 12C has 8Be + αresonance state at about 1 MeV above 8Be-αthreshold as an asymmetric 3-αlinear-chain structure, which plays an important role in stellar nucleosynthesis.

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