Empirical evidence suggests that neutron pairing plays an important role for the stability of nuclei near the neutron drip line. It is shown that the low binding of these nuclei will lead to a neutronization of the nuclear surface and possibly to large cross-sections for Coulomb dissociation, which then offers a new way to study clusters and their binding energies.

▪ Abstract  The identification of direct-reaction processes and their subsequent exploitation for the spectroscopy of weak radioactive beams of exotic nuclei are important problems in modern nuclear physics. One- and two-nucleon knockout reactions, studied using intermediate-energy radioactive beams, have been shown to be powerful tools for this purpose. This article discusses the current status of such investigations and reviews what has been learned to date from the experiments and analyses of the past five years. The techniques are still in their formative stages, and the open questions and challenges are outlined.

After giving a brief historical overview, we use simple few-body models to illustrate the: basic properties of halo states. Giant halos may exist in certain

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The cross sections for the stripping of two correlated nucleons from light and medium-mass nuclei are considered. Such reactions are of interest both as a means for populating and identifying low-lying excited states of very exotic nuclear species and as a potential direct spectroscopic probe of two-nucleon correlations in such systems. A calculation scheme that combines the full shell model two-nucleon spectroscopic amplitudes with eikonal reaction theory is presented. The theoretical predictions of the method, and of more approximate schemes, are compared with new data on two-proton removal from 28 Mg. The combined full shell model structure amplitudes and reaction dynamics predictions are in good agreement with the available measurements. First indications of the sensitivity of the reaction mechanism to the spatial and angular momentum structure of the stripped two-nucleon wave functions are also discussed and clarified.

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