Investigation Of Nuclear Cluster Phenomenology With The Relativistic Edf Approach

Relativistic energy density functionals (REDF) allowed to bring these last years a complementary understanding to the nuclear clustering phenomena. Three steps forwards are reported: i) localisation as a function of the nucleonic quantum numbers, indicating related cluster effects over the nuclear chart; ii) detailed comparisons with experimental data available on spectroscopy of light nuclei such as Ne-20 and C-12 and iii) investigation of pairing and quarteting effects within the REDF.