Still Few-Nucleon Systems - After So Many Years

Abstract

Three- and four-nucleon reactions are discussed. The focus is on the notion of nuclear potentials, on conceptual and technical issues of calculations and on unresolved problems between existing theoretical predictions and experimental data. The special focus is on some historic aspects of the evolution of the field. The views presented have a strong personal bias.

10 pages, 14 figures, Talk at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 2010

References in corpus (16)

• Accurate Charge-Dependent Nucleon-Nucleon Potential at Fourth Order of Chiral Perturbation Theory
• Effective Field Theory for Few-Nucleon Systems
• Three-Nucleon Forces from Chiral Effective Field Theory
• Local three-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory
• Momentum-space treatment of Coulomb interaction in three-nucleon reactions with two protons
• Momentum-space description of three-nucleon breakup reactions including the Coulomb interaction
• Nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering as a tool to probe properties of three-nucleon forces
• Polarization observables in p-d scattering below 30 MeV
• Evidence of the Coulomb force effects in the cross sections of the deuteron-proton breakup at 130 MeV
• Benchmark calculation for proton-deuteron elastic scattering observables including Coulomb
• Four-nucleon system with $\Delta$-isobar excitation
• Variational Calculation on A=3 and 4 Nuclei with Non-Local Potentials
• Coordinate space proton-deuteron scattering calculations including Coulomb force effects
• Proton-3He elastic scattering at low energies and the "A_y Puzzle"
• Neutron-triton elastic scattering
• Coulomb Effects in Few-Body Reactions