Quasi-elastic reactions: an interplay of reaction dynamics and nuclear structure

The revival of transfer reaction studies benefited from the construction of the new generation large solid angle spectrometers based on trajectory reconstruction that reached an unprecedented efficiency and selectivity. The coupling of these spectrometers with large γ arrays allowed the identification of individual excited states, their population pattern and decay modes via particle-γ coincidences. In the present paper aspects of fragment-γ coincidence studies measured with the Prisma-Clara set up in 40Ca+96Zr and 40Ar+208Pb are discussed. In particular, we report about states of particle-phonon character, supporting the idea that the relevant degrees of freedom acting in the reaction dynamics define the final yield distributions.