D L WATSON

Department of Physics, University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

Abstract.

This contribution outlines the work of the CHARISSA collaboration in the investigation of exotic states in nuclei. It outlines the background to the work, the techniques involved and discusses in detail an experiment to study the cluster stucture of ¹²Be.

Keywords:  Radiation detectors; nuclear clusters.

Pacs Nos.  29.30.Ep; 29.40.+n; 27.20.+n; 25.70.Ef; 21.60.Gx; 21.10.Hw