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Loosely bound nuclei far from the stability region emerge as a quantum phenomenon with many universal properties. The connection between these properties and the underlying symmetries can be best explored with halo/cluster EFT, an effective field theory where the softness of the binding momentum and the hardness of the core(s) form the expansion parameter of a given perturbative approach. In the following I highlight a particular application where these ideas are being tested, namely capture reactions.
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Higa, R. Capture Reactions with Halo Effective Field Theory. Few-Body Syst 56, 761–766 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-015-1004-x
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