From Light to Heavy Nuclear Systems, Production and Decay of Fragments Studied with Powerful Arrays

International audience; Reactions between heavy-ions at various energy regimes produce many nuclear fragments which can be populatedin highly excited states. The study of these fragments, detected at the end of their particle decay, is importantto investigate nuclear forces and structure effects. In recent years there have been many efforts to extend thesestudies towards the drip-lines, i.e. to systems far from the $\beta$-stability valley, by using accelerated radioactivebeams. The development of such infrastructures is accompanied by the development of more powerful detectorsand associated electronics, capable to identify ions with very different sizes and kinetic energies. Here we give twoexamples which show how advanced arrays can contribute to the studies on nuclear phenomena. The examplescome from the European FAZIA collaboration and from recent campaigns with the GARFIELD apparatus, thelatter in operation at the INFN Legnaro Laboratory (Italy) where the SPES RIB facility is under construction