Heavy-ion transfer reactions at large internuclear distances using the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer

We measured excitation functions for the main transfer channels in the Sn-116 + Ni-60 reaction at different bombarding energies from above to well below the Coulomb barrier. The experiment has been performed in inverse kinematics, detecting the lighter (target-like) ions with the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA at very forward angles. Good mass, nuclear charge and kinetic energy resolutions have been achieved. The comparison between the data and microscopic calculations for the present case and for the previously measured Zr-96 + Ca-40 system, namely superfluid and near closed shells nuclei, should significantly improve our understanding of nucleon-nucleon correlation properties in multinucleon transfer processes.