DoP Colloquium - Matko Milin

Nuclear Reactions for Experimental Studies of Nucleon Correlations
(Matko Milin - Department of Physics, PMF, Zagreb)

Nuclear reactions and structure in this millennium have become a testing ground for many exotic quantum phenomena. Some of them are unique to nuclear physics (e.g. Borromean and/or halo nuclei), while others reflect well-known cases from other parts of physics (e.g. the concept of covalent bonding or superconductivity effects). A common feature of all the examples mentioned is that many pieces of the puzzle are still missing in their description. Thus, significant efforts in contemporary experimental nuclear physics are devoted to the goal of obtaining clear and precise results that would establish the proposed quantum phenomena and narrow down the models of their description.

At the seminar, the new findings of the Zagreb group for nuclear reaction research (from IRB and PMF) will be presented, along with a description of the experimental capabilities and equipment we use. I will discuss results including those for clustering in light nuclei, nucleon correlations in transfer reactions, dynamics of nuclear reactions from low to relativistic energies, and the relation of all the mentioned phenomena with astrophysics.