Nuclear reaction experiments at TRIUMF-ISAC

The ISAC (Isotope Separator and Accelerator) Facility at TRIUMF contains two room temperature & one superconducting linear accelerators able to provide rare isotope beams from 0.107 to 16.5 MeV/u, enabling reaction studies from well below the Coulomb barrier to far above it, accessing fusion-evaporation or highly-peripheral transfer reactions. Coupled with a suite of experimental facilities including a recoil separator (DRAGON), recoil spectrometer (EMMA), Compton-suppressed γ-ray array (TIGRESS), charged particle scattering devices (TUDA, SONIK, SHARC) and a solid hydrogen target facility (IRIS), a diverse program of nuclear reaction studies has been pursued. These range from direct and indirect cross section (or lifetime or branching ratio) measurements for nuclear astrophysics, to the study of nuclear shell evolution near the drip lines and islands of inversion, nuclear pairing, nuclear halo, cluster, or sub barrier fusion enhancement studies. These include the usage of devices brought by external users such as active target TPCs or custom reaction arrays. Recently effort has also been spent on reaction & scattering studies related to in-house ab initio nuclear theory calculations. For this broad program I will give a brief overview of the facility and experimental stations and a selection of recent scientific results using radioactive and stable beams to illustrate the facility's capabilities.