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 (4)

• Local three-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory
• Evidence of the Coulomb force effects in the cross sections of the deuteron-proton breakup at 130 MeV
• Four-nucleon system with $\Delta$-isobar excitation
• Neutron-triton elastic scattering