Few-Body Problems in Physics ’93

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Session 1

   1. Baryon-Baryon Interactions

      • Th. A. Rijken

      Pages 1-12

   2. Precise Measurements of Spin Observables in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering

      • J. Sowinski

      Pages 13-21

3. Session 2

   1. Production of Antihyperon-Hyperon Pairs at Lear

      • K. Kilian

      Pages 22-33

   2. Antiproton-proton partial-wave analysis below 925 MeV/c

      • R. Timmermans, Th. A. Rijken, J. J. de Swart

      Pages 34-41

4. Session 3

   1. Spin Observables and Annihilation in Antiproton-Proton Reactions

      • Frank Tabakin

      Pages 42-49

   2. The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction and Violation of Fundamental Symmetries

      • W. T. H. van Oers

      Pages 50-63

   3. Status of the Virginia Tech Partial-Wave Analyses

      • Richard A. Arndt, Ron L. Workman

      Pages 64-67

5. Session 4

   1. Periodic Orbits and Recurrences: An Introduction and Review

      • J. B. Delos

      Pages 68-79

   2. Nuclear Aspects of Few-Baryon Systems

      • B. F. Gibson

      Pages 80-91

6. Session 5

   1. Electromagnetic Form Factors of Two-Nucleon and Three-Nucleon Bound States

      • Peter U. Sauer, Hartmut Henning

      Pages 92-103

   2. Electron Scattering with Polarized 3He Targets

      • R. D. McKeown

      Pages 104-111

7. Session 6

   1. Electron Scattering from Polarized Deuterium at VEPP-3

      • C. E. Jones, K. P. Coulter, R. Gilman, R. J. Holt, E. R. Kinney, R. S. Kowalczyk et al.

      Pages 112-119

   2. Results of (e,e’x) experiments on 4He

      • H. P. Blok

      Pages 120-127

   3. Separation of Electromagnetic Response Functions of Few-Body Nuclei in (e,e’p) Reactions

      • C. Marchand

      Pages 128-135

8. Session 7

   1. A Simultaneous Measurement of the (γ,n) and (γ,p) Reactions in 4He

      • J. Asai, G. Feldman, R. E. J. Florizone, E. L. Hallin, D. M. Skopik, J. M. Vogt et al.

      Pages 136-143

   2. Electrodisintegration of the Deuteron

      • B. H. Schoch

      Pages 144-150

   3. Exclusive Electron Scattering from Deuterium at High Q2

      • J. F. J. van den Brand

      Pages 151-159

9. Session 8

   1. Proton-Deuteron Break Up Including Coulomb Effects

      • E. O. Alt, M. Rauh

      Pages 160-163

10. Session 9

    1. Structure and Fragmentation of Few-Body Coulomb Systems

       • J. S. Briggs

       Pages 164-176

It is apparent from the history of science, that few-body problems have an interdis­ ciplinary character. Newton, after solving the two-body problem so brilliantly, tried his hand at the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Here he failed in two respects: neither was he able to compute the motion of the moon accurately, nor did he understand the reason for that. It took a long time to understand the fundamental importance of Newton's failure, and only Poincare realised what was the fundamental difficulty in Newtons programme. Nowadays, the term deterministic chaos is associated with this problem. The deep insights of Poincare were neglected by the founding fathers of Quantum Physics. Thus history was repeated by Bohr and his students. After quantising the hydrogen atom, they soon found that the textbook case of a three-body problem in atomic physics, the 3He-atom, did not yield to the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantisation methods. Only these days do people realise what precisely were the difficulties connected to this semi­ classical way of treating quantum systems. Our field, as we know it today, began in principle in the early 1950's, when Watson sketched the outlines of three-body scattering theory. Mathematical rigour was achieved by Faddeev and thereafter, at the beginning of the 1960's, the quantum three-body prob­ lem, at least as far as short-range forces were concerned, w&s tamed. In the years that followed, through the work of others, who first applied Faddeev's methods, but later added new techniques, the three-and four-body problems became fully housebroken.

• Baryon
• Meson
• Quark
• hadron
• molecular physics
• nuclear physics

• Department of Physics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  B. L. G. Bakker

• National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  R. Dantzig

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