Open issues in extracting nuclear structure information from the breakup of exotic nuclei

Abstract

The open issues in the development of models for the breakup of exotic nuclei and the link with the extraction of structure information from experimental data are reviewed. The question of the improvement of the description of exotic nuclei within reaction models is approached in the perspective of previous analyses of the sensitivity of these models to that description. Future developments of reaction models are suggested, such as the inclusion of various channels within one model. The search for new reaction observables that can emphasise more details of exotic nuclear structure is also proposed.

Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, submitted as a contribution to the Secial Issue on "Nuclear reaction theory" of the Journal of Physics G, guest edited by R.C. Johnson and F.M. Nunes