Isospin Physics with the Reverse Experiment

Heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies offer the possibility to investigate the role of the isospin degree of freedom in determining the evolution of the reaction mechanism in an energy domain dominated by the competition between one body and two body nuclear dynamics. The REVERSE experiment has been carried on the period September 1999 - May 2000, at the Laboratory Nazionali del Sud in Catania, with the forward part of the 4π multidetector CHIMERA. This part of the device consists 688 Si-CsI (Tl) telescopes arranged in nine ring and has been used to study the inverse reactions ^112,124Sn+^58,64Ni, Al, at E_beam 35 MeV/A. Much care was devoted in calibrating the detectors in energy, charge and mass for the proper identification of light heavy nuclei and charged particles was obtained. The first physical results are presented.