[2311.13129]
P. J. Li, D. Beaumel, J. Lee, M. Assié, S. Chen, S. Franchoo, J. Gibelin, F. Hammache, T. Harada, Y. Kanada-En'yo, Y. Kubota, S. Leblond, P. F. Liang, T. Lokotko, M. Lyu, F. M. Marqués, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogata, H. Otsu, E. Rindel, L. Stuhl, D. Suzuki, Y. Togano, T. Tomai, X. X. Xu, K. Yoshida, J. Zenihiro, N. L. Achouri, T. Aumann, H. Baba, G. Cardella, S. Ceruti, A. I. Stefanescu, A. Corsi, A. Frotscher, J. Gao, A. Gillibert, K. Inaba, T. Isobe, T. Kawabata, N. Kitamura, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, A. Kurihara, H. N. Liu, H. Miki, T. Nakamura, A. Obertelli, N. A. Orr, V. Panin, M. Sasano, T. Shimada, Y. L. Sun, J. Tanaka, L. Trache, D. Tudor, T. Uesaka, H. Wang, H. Yamada, Z. H. Yang, M. Yasuda
The cluster structure of the neutron-rich isotope $^{10}$Be has been probed via the $(p,pα)$ reaction at 150 MeV/nucleon in inverse kinematics and in quasifree conditions. The populated states of $^{6}$He residues were investigated through missing mass spectroscopy. The triple differential cross-section for the ground-state transition was extracted for quasifree angle pairs ($θ_{p}$, $θ_α$) and compared to distorted-wave impulse approximation reaction calculations performed in a microscopic framework using successively the Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-Röpke product wave-function and the wave-function deduced from Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics calculations. The remarkable agreement between calculated and measured cross-sections in both shape and magnitude validates the molecular structure description of the $^{10}$Be ground-state, configured as an $α$-$α$ core with two valence neutrons occupying $π$-type molecular orbitals.