Charge-exchange reactions at intermediate incident beam energies are a powerful tool for studying spin-isospin responses of nuclei. They become even mightier when rare-isotope beams are utilized and/or when gamma-ray spectroscopy is combined, as they allow for pinning down specific excitations with precise energy determination or gain new spin-isospin selectivities that are not possible with conventional reaction probes. They are useful in particular for studying elusive giant resonances and a variety of other astrophysical phenomena such as stellar electron captures. In this seminar, I will discuss some of these instances including our recent results on rare-isotope-beam-induced charge-exchange reactions such as (t, 3He), (12N, 12C), and (10Be, 10B) which were performed at NSCL/MSU and RIBF/RIKEN.
Francesco Recchia