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No Tetra-proton cluster in 20Mg

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Despite a recent suggestion of Chulkov, et al., we find no evidence for a tetra-proton cluster in 20Mg. The binding energy and radius are easily understood without such a cluster.

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  1. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, , , , , , US

    R. Sherr

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, , , , , , US

    H.T. Fortune

  3. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA, , , , , , US

    B.A. Brown

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Received: 14 May 1999

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Sherr, R., Fortune, H. & Brown, B. No Tetra-proton cluster in 20Mg . Eur. Phys. J. A 5, 371–372 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500050299

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