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Description
The region of the nuclear chart corresponding to light radioactive nuclei has, over the years, yielded many surprising results, among others the discovery of the halo structure in neutron and proton dripline nuclei. This region of the nuclear chart is also rich of many other phenomena like the appearance of molecular-like structures where -particle-clusters are bound together by the exchange of neutrons or the existence of “exotic clustering” i.e. cluster configurations where at least one of the clusters is a weakly bound radioactive nucleus. The availability of post-accelerated radioactive ion beams has opened the opportunity to study nuclear structure and reactions of such peculiar nuclei. Moreover, to be able to describe the physics observables extracted from experiments theoretical models have been developed that allow to advance our understanding about the nature of the observed structures.
In this talk an overview of some of the new phenomena involving light exotic RIBs will be given and future perspectives discussed.