“…The configuration mixing was first suggested in 1976 by Barker [17] following a β-decay study of 12 Be. Further experimental support for this suggestion has come through measurements of transition strengths to the 1 − 1 [18], 0 + 2 [19,20], and 2 + 1 bound states [21], through extraction of the ground state charge radius [22], and through nuclear knock-out [23], break-up [24,25], transfer [26], and charge exchange [27] reactions. These measurements have shown that the N = 8 magic number is clearly broken in 12 Be and the detailed mixing of the shells is still being investigated.…”