“…The advantages of inverse kinematics over conventional kinematics for IMPAC measurements include (i) the improved sensitivity achieved by virtue of the forward-focusing of the reaction products in the laboratory frame (the particle detector therefore can cover a larger solid angle in the centre-of-mass frame), and (ii) the applicability of inverse kinematics to experiments on exotic nuclei produced as radioactive beams, which open up new regimes for nuclear structure studies [12,13,14,15]. A third alternative for the reaction is to excite the beam ions in glancing collisions on heavier target nuclei [16,17,18,19,20,21]. Further discussion of conventional versus inverse kinematics measurements may be found in the reviews of Speidel et al [3] and Benczer-Koller and Kumbartzki [4].…”