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Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications (RÁBIDA 2018)

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Nuclear reactions play an essential role to address the many-body problem of nuclear structure. Reactions are used to produce exotic nuclei, to populate specific nuclear states and the so-called direct reactions have been a unique tool to built up our representation of the nuclear shell structure. In this lecture, the basics of radioactive beam production are described and direct reactions are introduced. In particular, spectroscopic factors (SF) are defined and discussed. Transfer and knockout reactions are introduced in the light of today’s experiments and detection setups.

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    One exception is the CARIBU facility at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, which relies on the production of radioactive ions from a high intensity radioactive source of Californium which releases fission fragments. CARIBU does not require any primary beam.

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The present lecture notes are based on a lecture given at La Rábida summer school in Huelva, Spain. The material of the notes is partly taken from published lecture notes [136] by the author from a lecture given at the 2015 Pisa Summer school entitled “Re-writing nuclear physics textbooks: 30 years of radioactive ion beam physics”, organized by Angela Bonaccorso. I thank José-Enrique Ramos and Antonio Moro for their kind invitation and the perfect organisation of the La Rábida summer school in 2018.

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  2. Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    María V. Andrés

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    José A. Lay Valera

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    Antonio M. Moro

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Obertelli, A. (2019). Nuclear Reaction Experiments. In: García-Ramos, JE., Andrés, M., Valera, J., Moro, A., Pérez-Bernal, F. (eds) Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications. RÁBIDA 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22204-8_3

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