Nucleon removal (p,pn) and (p,2p) reactions at intermediate energies have gained renewed attention in recent years as a tool to extract information from exotic nuclei, thanks to the availability of exotic beams with which to perform these reactions in inverse kinematics. The information obtained from these experiments is complementary to that obtained from nucleon removal experiments with...
Direct nucleon removal has become a tool of choice to study structure and reactions in exotic nuclei [1,2,3]. Despite the pervasiveness of this method, theoretical approaches to describe these reactions remain incomplete. To remedy this, part of the community has focused on experiments with pure proton targets at intermediate energies where the quasifree scattering paradigm may be invoked and...
The shell model remains one of the main building blocks of nuclear structure. Its robustness is well proven for nuclei close to stability, where it successfully explains the occurence of magic numbers. However, these magic numbers are not universal throughout the nuclear chart and their evolution away from stability, observed experimentally over the last decades, has generated much interest....
One of the major focus of modern nuclear physics is to explore which part of the nuclear interaction gives rise to significant shell modifications. Recently, the evolution of the 2s1/2+ and 1d3/2+ single-particle states in odd-A K isotopes attract particular interests. The energy gap between these two states decrease continuously when neutrons fill f7/2 orbit. Inversion of the ordering of the...
It is known that neutron magic number N=20 disappears in the region of Z=10~12. Study of nuclei in this region, called "island of inversion" is important for understanding the evolution of shell structure in neutron-rich region. Neutron-rich F and Ne isotopes are located at the south boundary of the island of inversion. Due to the difficulty in production of these extremely neutron-rich...
