Significant advances have been achieved in the last years in the field of multinucleon
transfer reactions. The advent of the last generation large solid angle magnetic
spectrometers pushed the detection efficiency more than an order of magnitude above
previous limits, with a significant gain in mass resolution for very heavy ions. Further, the
coupling of these spectrometers to large gamma arrays allowed to perform gamma-particle
coincidences. One can thus detect the transfer strength to the lowest excited levels of binary …