Correlation studies in break-up experiments

摘要

Experimental studies addressing the investigation of light nuclei and unbound systems close and across the neutron dripline are presented. Borromean halo nuclei exhibit momentum correlations that can be found in the two- and three-body decay channels following break-up reactions at high energies in inverse kinematics, where the projectiles’ internal degrees of freedom can be treated as frozen. It is shown that correlation measurements, performed through kinematically complete experiments, are sensitive tools and allow to extract valuable information on ground state properties and continuum excitations.