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The 9Li + ²H → 10Li + ¹H one-neutron transfer reaction has been performed at 100 MeV incident energy at TRIUMF using a 9Li beam delivered by the ISAC-II facility. A setup based on double-sided silicon strip detectors has been used in order to detect and identify the outgoing 9Li produced by the 10Li breakup at forward angles and the recoil protons emitted at backward angles. The 10Li low-lying resonances, whose energies, widths and configurations are still unclear, have been populated with significant statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This lecture, intended for physics graduate students, represents an introduction to ion optics with applications to the electromagnetic spectrometers used in nuclear astrophysics research. A particular radiative capture reaction is chosen to illustrate the requirements of such spectrometers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advanced nuclear structure models predict the presence of the shell closures N = 14, 16 in neutron-rich O isotopes rather than N = 20. Spectroscopic investigations performed at the neutron drip line have recently confirmed such predictions showing that the 24O is a doubly magic nucleus (Z = 8, N = 16). Predictions within the shell model calculation for the 23,24O ground state have been confirmed measuring their spectroscopic factors. Results obtained in one-neutron removal reactions performed by using in-flight radioactive ion beams produced at the Fragment Separator FRS of GSI are reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]