Coulomb-corrected wormhole model for Neon-20

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Building on the spatial wormhole geometry proposed by Manton and Dunajski, we develop a modified model for the Neon-20 nucleus that incorporates a repulsive Coulomb potential. This reduces the large threshold energy for cluster break-up in the original model and converts most bound states to resonances. We use generalized WKB methods to calculate the energies of bound states, and also the energies and widths of under-barrier and over-barrier resonances. The results align closely with experimental data for the 0 1 + , 0 1 − and 0 4 + rotational bands of Neon-20, including the large widths in the higher-nodal 0 4 + band.