ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe the basic tools used in the experimental investigations of nuclear reactions in the Fermi energy range. In the first part we consider the experimental tools (namely the beam facilities and the detectors) that have been designed to achieve a good detection of all the various reaction products. A major breakthrough in the investigation of nuclear collisions has been the large development of 4 devices which are nowadays used almost exclusively. These detectors, which cover almost the whole space around a reaction, allow the recording of kinematically quasi-complete events. They are described in section 4.1.2 after a brief description of the accelerators used in the energy range discussed in this book (section 4.1.1).
