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Reactions for Production of Exotic Nuclei

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An overview of the nuclear reactions that are used to produce exotic nuclei along with the relevant theoretical models and predictions of their cross sections will be presented in this chapter. The chapter concludes with a discussion of key goals and present-day limitations in the production of exotic nuclei from the standpoint of nuclear reactions.

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Antonenko, N., Benlliure, J., Karpov, A., Morrissey, D.J. (2023). Reactions for Production of Exotic Nuclei. In: Tanihata, I., Toki, H., Kajino, T. (eds) Handbook of Nuclear Physics . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6345-2_99

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