2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/85531Recent experiments clearly demonstrate the importance of the excited state $2^+$ at 1.8 MeV in the substruture ${^6}He$ for the ground state of the nucleus ${^8}He$. It is shown here that this means that the ground state structure of ${^8}He$ rather than being $α$ + 4n is actually ${^3}H$ + ${^3}H$ +2n. As such the pair of tritons would form a compact core around which the two valence neutrons provide a halo structure in ${^8}He$. Hence both ${^6}He$ and ${^8}He$ are two neutron halo nuclei but with cores of quite different nature. All this demonstrates significance of triton clustering in neutron rich nuclei.6 pages, no figuresGeneral PhysicsNeutron halo, tritons and alpha clusters in the nucleus ${^8}He$text