Dear Wladimir,

Sorry to say that you are wrong. You have not cited any new experiments. You have cited a letter in Nature called “How atomic nuclei cluster” which does not contain any new experiments (it does cite recent experiments).

The letter presents the modern treatment of clusters of nucleons and traces the origin of the clustering (known about since the 1930’s) to the depth of the confining nuclear potential.

If you cannot realize the these are 2D graphs calculated from three dimensional theory and so are “flat” by definition, I am very sorry.

If you cannot be bothered to try to read the actual letter ( pre-print here [arxiv.org]), I am very sorry.

Figure 1 is

Plots of self-consistent ground-state densities of 20Ne, calculated with the nuclear energy density functionals: DD-ME2[23] (top), and Skyrme SLy4 [22, 30] (bottom). The densities (in units of fm􀀀3) are plotted in the x-z plane of

the intrinsic frame of reference that coincides with the principal axes of the nucleus, with z chosen as the symmetry axis. The inserts show the corresponding three-dimensional density plots and the density profiles along the symmetry axis, respectively.

Your book is (by your definition) plagiarism of Weizsacker and Wheeler: “The occurrence of molecular states in atomic nuclei and the formation of clusters of nucleons were already predicted in the 30's by von Weizsacker and Wheeler[1, 2].”.