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In this brief review, we discuss the basic theoretical concepts used in the experimental studies of the most common cases of direct reactions such as (a) elastic scattering, (b) inelastic scattering, (c) Coulomb excitation, (d) transfer reactions, and (e) breakup reactions.

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This work has been supported in part by the US DOE grant No. DE-FG02-08ER41533.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX, USA

    Carlos A. Bertulani

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy

    Angela Bonaccorso

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    Hiroshi Toki

  3. Beihang University, Haidian, Beijing, China

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Bertulani, C.A., Bonaccorso, A. (2023). Direct Nuclear Reactions. In: Tanihata, I., Toki, H., Kajino, T. (eds) Handbook of Nuclear Physics . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6345-2_3

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