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Recent advances in in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of actinide nuclei are based on highly efficient arrays of escape-suppressed spectrometers. The sensitivity of these detector arrays is greatly enhanced by the combination with powerful mass separators or particle detector systems. This technique is demonstrated by an experiment to investigate excited states in 234 U after the one-neutron-transfer reaction 235 U(d,t). In coincidence with the outgoing tritons, γ-rays were detected with the highly efficient MINIBALL spectrometer. In the near future an even enhanced sensitivity will be achieved by utilizing position sensitive HPGe detectors which will exploit the novel detection method of gamma-ray energy tracking in electrically segmented germanium detectors. An example for this novel approach is the investigation neutron-rich actinide Th and U nuclei after multi nucleon transfer reactions employing the AGATA demonstrator and PRISMA setup at LNL, Italy. A primary 136 Xe beam hitting a 238 U target was used to produce the nuclei of interest. Beam-like reaction products after neutron transfer were selected by the PRISMA spectrometer. Coincident γ-rays from excited states in beam and target like particles were measured with the position sensitive AGATA HPGe detectors. Improved Doppler correction and quality of the γ-spectra is based on the novel γ-ray tracking technique, which was successfully exploited in this region.

Direct observation of the survival of 199Au residues after 2n transfer in the He 8 + Au 197 system and the absence of the corresponding 67Cu in the He 8 + Cu 65 system at various energies are reported. The measurements of the surprisingly large cross sections for 199Au, coupled with the integral cross sections for the various Au residues, is used to obtain the first model-independent lower limits on the ratio of 2n to 1n transfer cross sections from 8He to a heavy target. A comparison of the transfer cross sections for 6,8He on these targets highlights the differences in the interactions of these Borromean nuclei. These measurements for the most neutron-rich nuclei on different targets highlight the need to probe the reaction mechanism with various targets and represent an experimental advance towards understanding specific features of pairing in the dynamics of dilute nuclear systems.

Pairing across the particle emission threshold and the properties of corresponding quasiparticle strength functions are discussed in an extended mean-field approach. This particular type of dynamical correlations gives rise to a unique class of sharp low-lying resonances close to the particle emission threshold. Spectral functions for particle and hole states are discussed. They are explored theoretically by single-nucleon transfer reactions, populating the low energy continuum with respect to a core nucleus. The cross sections of the reaction d(9Li, 10Li)p at T lab = 2.36 A MeV , recently measured at REX-ISOLDE, are well reproduced by our calculations including a pairing resonance in the 3 / 2 − partial wave of purely coupled channels nature.

We developed a Monte-Carlo code for describing the reaction kinematics of the two-body direct processes employed of the EXOTIC beam-line of the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) for the production of light weakly bound radioactive ion beams at energies of a few MeV/u. The program calculates the phase-space distribution of both primary and secondary beams at the target exit and uses these quantities to optimize the secondary beam selection with the EXOTIC spectrometer. The calculations have been performed and compared with the available experimental data for two reactions: (1)H(2)((17)O, (17)F)n and (3)He((6)Li, (8)B)n. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.