Weak interaction processes in supernovae: New probes using charge exchange reaction at intermediate energies

In this paper we present the (d,2He) reaction at intermediate energies as another and potentially even more powerful tool for charge-exchange reactions in the T>, resp. β+ direction. The key issue here will be the high resolution of order 100 keV, which provides new and sometimes unexpected insight into nuclear structure phenomena. This program has been launched at the AGOR Superconducting Cyclotron Facility at the KVI Groningen. By now, it covers a wide field of physics questions ranging from few-body physics, the structure of halo-nuclei, to questions pertaining to the dynamics of supernova explosions and nuclear synthesis, and more recently to the measurements of (ββ) decay matrix elements and the determination of half-lives of (ββ) decaying nuclei.