PHYSICAL REVIEW C, cilt.102, sa.4, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Heavy-ion induced two-nucleon transfer reactions are powerful tools to reveal peculiar aspects of the atomic nucleus, such as pairing correlations, single-particle and collective degrees of freedom, and more. Also, these processes are in competition with the direct meson exchange in the double charge exchange reactions, which have recently attracted great interest due to their possible connection to neutrinoless double-beta decay. In this framework, the exploration of two-nucleon transfer reactions in the Ne-20 +Cd-116 collision at energies above the Coulomb barrier is particularly relevant since the Cd-116 nucleus is a candidate for the double-beta decay.