Moro Muñoz, Antonio MatíasCasal Berbel, JesúsGómez-Ramos, M.2025-05-122025-05-122025Moro Muñoz, A.M., Casal Berbel, J. y Gómez-Ramos, M. (2025). The art of modeling nuclear reactions with weakly bound nuclei: status and perspectives. European Physical Jorunal A, 61 (3), 47. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01500-0.1434-601X1434-6001https://hdl.handle.net/11441/172540We give an overview of the theoretical description of nuclear reactions involving weakly-bound nuclei. Some of the more widespread reaction formalisms employed in the analysis of these reactions are briefly introduced, including various recent developments. We put special emphasis on the continuum-discretized coupled-channel (CDCC) method and its extensions to incorporate core and target excitations as well as its application to three-body projectiles. The role of the continuum for one-nucleon transfer reactions is also discussed. The problem of the evaluation of inclusive breakup cross sections is addressed within the Ichimura–Austern–Vincent (IAV)model.Other methods, such as those based on a semiclasical description of the scattering process, are also briefly introduced and some of their applications are discussed and a brief discussion on topics of current interest, such as nucleon-nucleon correlations, uncertainty evaluation and non-locality is presented.application/pdf57engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01500-0