Structure of Light Unstable Nuclei Studied with Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics

Abstract

Structures of light unstable nuclei, Li, Be, B and C isotopes are systematically studied with a microscopic method of antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. The theoretical method is found to be very useful to study ground and excited states of various nuclei covering unstable nuclei. The calculations succeed to reproduce many experimental data for nuclear structures; energies, radii, magnetic dipole moments, electric quadrupole moments, transition strength. In the theoretical results it is found that various exotic phenomena in unstable nuclei such as molecular-like structures, neutron skin, and large deformations may appear in unstable nuclei. We investigate the structure change with the increase of neutron number and the excitation energies, and find the drastic changes between shell-model-like structures and clustering structures. The mechanism of clustering developments in unstable nuclei is discussed.