The article describes the main achievements of the NUMEN project together with an
updated and detailed overview of the related R&D activities and theoretical developments …

This review discusses the main achievements and future perspectives of the MAGNEX
spectrometer at the INFN-LNS laboratory in Catania (Italy). MAGNEX is a large-acceptance …

The knowledge of the nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double beta decay is
fundamental for neutrino physics. In this paper, an innovative technique to extract …

Background: A systematic exploration of one-nucleon transfer reactions induced by the (O
18, F 19) and (O 18, O 17) reactions on different targets (C 12, O 16, Al 27, Ca 40, Ti 48, Se …

The 40Ca (18O, 18F) 40K single charge exchange (SCE) reaction is explored at an incident
energy of 275 MeV and analyzed consistently by collecting the elastic scattering and …

NUMEN proposes an innovative technique to access the nuclear matrix elements entering
the expression of the lifetime of the double beta decay by cross-section measurements of …

Background: Heavy-ion induced two-nucleon transfer reactions are powerful tools to reveal
peculiar aspects of the atomic nucleus, such as pairing correlations, single-particle and …

Background: Nucleon transfer reactions are selective tools for nuclear physics
investigations. The theoretical and computational limits affecting in the past their data …

Double charge exchange (DCE) reactions could provide experimentally driven information
about nuclear matrix elements of interest in the context of neutrinoless double-β decay. To …

The search for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay is currently a key topic in physics, due
to its possible wide implications for nuclear physics, particle physics, and cosmology. The …