https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00719-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Weak binding effects on the structure of 
Mg
1
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, California, USA
2
Departamento de Física Teórica and IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
Received:
19
January
2022
Accepted:
29
March
2022
Published online:
12
April
2022
While the phenomenon of one- and two-neutron ground-state halo nuclei is well established, the effects of weak binding on nuclear excitation properties remain largely unexplored. Motivated by this question and by recent data in Mg we investigate the coupling of weakly bound (halo) valence neutrons to a core using the known properties of Mg to explore and illustrate possible particle-core coupling schemes and their impact on the low-lying excitation spectrum.
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022
