2026-05-01 理化学研究所,京都大学,大阪大学,九州大学

図1 原子核における非一様性発現の概念図
陽子(赤球)と中性子(青球)から成る一様で均質な物質と考えられていたが、むしろ、重陽子(赤球と青球各1個のペア)、アルファ粒子(4He原子核:赤球2個と青球2個)や三重陽子、ヘリウム3クラスターなどを内部に含む非一様性が発現すると考えられている。
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- https://www.riken.jp/press/2026/20260501_2/index.html
- https://academic.oup.com/ptep/article/2026/5/053D01/8512264
226 MeVにおける 12Cおよび16Oに対する 陽子誘起重水素ノックアウト(p,pd) Proton-Induced Deuteron Knockout (p,pd) on 12C and 16O at 226 MeV
CheongSoo Lee,Ryotaro Tsuji,Yuki Kubota,Yoshiki Chazono,Deuk Soon Ahn,Nori Aoi,Didier Beaumel,Jiawei Bian,Jiawei Cai,Fengyi Chen,…
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Published:30 April 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptag046
Abstract
The proton-induced deuteron knockout reaction (p,pd) provides a unique opportunity to exploit proton–neutron correlations and the deuteron cluster structure of nuclei. Direct deuteron knockout experiments on 12C and 16O under quasi-free scattering conditions have been carried out under the ONOKORO project using a 226-MeV proton beam at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka, Japan. Deuterons from the knockout reaction, acting as clusters, were unambiguously detected at the focal plane of the Large Acceptance Spectrometer. Outgoing protons, following the knockout of clusters, were detected at the focal plane of the Grand Raiden spectrometer to correctly reconstruct the expected events. (p,pd) reactions are established successfully, and excitation energy spectra for the residual nuclei10 B and 14N are obtained. Results showed that a large difference in transition strength toward the low-lying energy level of residual nuclei, including the ground state, was found in comparison to other studies. Theoretical calculations using the Proton-Induced KnockOut reaction calculation for Exclusive processes (PIKOE) package based on the distorted-wave impulse approximation are conducted to deduce the triple differential cross section of the (p,pd) reaction, and experimental spectroscopic factors of the deuteron cluster are obtained by normalizing the experimental cross section to the theoretical computation. Consistent spectroscopic factors in comparison to shell-model expectations are obtained for transitions involving the orbital angular momentum L=0 of the cluster. The present work demonstrates that the (p,pd) reactions at 226 MeV as a spectroscopic tool have an advantage in examining spectroscopic aspects of deuteron clustering and the mechanism to form a proton–neutron pair in the spin triplet state with negligible interference of final-state interactions and refraction effects.

