Eur. Phys. J. A (2019) 55: 244
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2019-12786-2

Review

Giant Pairing Vibrations in light nuclei

¹ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
² Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

^* e-mail: manuela.cavallaro@lns.infn.it

Received: 29 March 2019
Accepted: 28 May 2019
Published online: 4 December 2019

Abstract

Signatures of the population of the Giant Pairing Vibration (GPV), a correlated two-nucleon excitation across major shell expected to be populated in two-nucleon transfer reactions, have been observed for the first time in carbon isotopes. In the present paper, a review of the experimental methods and of the analysis leading to that observation is reported. A new case, with new experimental data, regarding the possible population of the GPV in another light nucleus, ¹¹Be , by the same reaction, is introduced and discussed.