Reaction mechanisms for light halo nuclei

Current nuclear physics focuses on exploring nucleon matter under extreme conditions, such as those that can be created in modern accelerator laboratories. On the neutron-rich side of stability, radioactive beams have already led to the discovery of halos in nuclei with neutron distributions extending to large distances. Halo nuclei are composite systems with prominent features of few-body correlations, which reveal themselves in various reactions involving these systems. We will discuss experiments that probe a halo structure through studying various reactions involving halo nuclei, with special emphasis on how, from the theoretical point of view, such reactions contribute to our knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the nuclear halo.