Aspects of Low Energy Binary Reactions.

Recent experimental and theoretical advances have been achieved in the field of multinucleon transfer reactions among heavy-ions. Detailed A,Z and Q-value distributions allow to identify the relevant degrees of freedom acting in the transfer process. The advent of the large solid angle magnetic spectrometer PRISMA coupled to the large γ-array CLARA was a major experimental breakthrough, as reaction mechanism and nuclear structure studies of neutron-rich nuclei can be performed via γ-particle coincidences. Examples of recent studies, mainly focused on the reaction mechanism, are presented. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]