Study of clustering in isotopes of beryllium

Recently, a new strategy that unifies the structure, clustering, and reactions aspects of the nuclear quantum many-body problem has been put forward; the configuration interaction technique combined with the resonating group method based on a harmonic oscillator basis allows one to treat the reaction and multi-clustering dynamics in a translationally invariant way and preserve Pauli principle. In this presentation we apply the developed method to study the alpha clustering in 8Be, 9Be, and 10Be from ab-inito principles. Isotopes of beryllium are classic examples of molecular type clustering structures and thus provide an ideal arena for exploring the emergence of complex dynamics from realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction.