Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation Original Research Article

Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation is a powerful spectroscopic tool to study nuclei produced at exotic fast-beam facilities. With incident exotic beam rates of as little as a few particles/s, the technique can establish transition energies between bound excited states and the corresponding transition matrix elements. It thus lends itself to studying the evolution of the structure of nuclei along chains of isotopes from the proton dripline to the most neutron-rich nuclei accessible.