Nuclear Structure of Light Nuclei Near Threshold

Moving toward an understanding of nuclei at the threshold of nuclear binding is a major theme of contemporary experimental and theoretical nuclear physics. The challenge to the former is to probe nuclei at the limits of existence requiring a variety of different techniques such as nucleon transfer, nucleon knockout, and Coulomb dissociation, and so on. And to the latter, a question of framing the problem: What role does finite binding play? What role does the continuum play? How can the action of these effects be isolated when interpreting the experimental data? Is it even possible to disentangle these?