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With the advent of accelerator facilities dedicated to the production of radioactive nuclei, experimenters had to develop new, efficient techniques that can measure observables with the available beam rates. In-flight separated beams offer large luminosity gains through the use of thick secondary targets when combined with the detection of \grs to indicate inelastic scattering. Here we review the status of Coulomb excitation at intermediate energies, a technique that allows for the measurement of transition rates in atomic nuclei with beam rates of a few particles per second.
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Glasmacher, T. (2009). Testing the Structure of Exotic Nuclei via Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive Ion Beams at Intermediate Energies. In: Al-Khalili, J., Roeckl, E. (eds) The Euroschool Lectures on Physics with Exotic Beams, Vol. III. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85839-3_2
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