Ebook: Few-Body Problems in Physics ’93: Proceedings of the XIVth European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 23–27, 1993

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.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Baryon-Baryon Interactions....Pages 1-12
Precise Measurements of Spin Observables in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering....Pages 13-21
Production of Antihyperon-Hyperon Pairs at Lear....Pages 22-33
Antiproton-proton partial-wave analysis below 925 MeV/c....Pages 34-41
Spin Observables and Annihilation in Antiproton-Proton Reactions....Pages 42-49
The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction and Violation of Fundamental Symmetries....Pages 50-63
Status of the Virginia Tech Partial-Wave Analyses....Pages 64-67
Periodic Orbits and Recurrences: An Introduction and Review....Pages 68-79
Nuclear Aspects of Few-Baryon Systems....Pages 80-91
Electromagnetic Form Factors of Two-Nucleon and Three-Nucleon Bound States....Pages 92-103
Electron Scattering with Polarized 3He Targets....Pages 104-111
Electron Scattering from Polarized Deuterium at VEPP-3....Pages 112-119
Results of (e,e’x) experiments on 4He....Pages 120-127
Separation of Electromagnetic Response Functions of Few-Body Nuclei in (e,e’p) Reactions....Pages 128-135
A Simultaneous Measurement of the (?,n) and (?,p) Reactions in 4He....Pages 136-143
Electrodisintegration of the Deuteron....Pages 144-150
Proton-Deuteron Break Up Including Coulomb Effects....Pages 151-159
Structure and Fragmentation of Few-Body Coulomb Systems....Pages 160-163
Recent Progress on the Four-Nucleon Frontier....Pages 164-176
Photo-Induced Reactions on 4He....Pages 177-192
Nuclear Transitions in Muonic Molecules....Pages 193-200
Theory of Formation and Decay of Metastable States of Hadronic Helium Atoms....Pages 201-203
Signature of a Narrow ?NN-Resonance in the Energy Dependence of the Pionic Double Charge Exchange....Pages 204-207
Exotic Dibaryons Correlated with Experiment....Pages 208-212
Alpha-Particle Binding Energies for Realistic Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions....Pages 213-216
Recent Results from the Nucleon-Nucleon Program at Saturne II....Pages 217-220
Measurement of the NP?PP?? Reaction at 443 MEV....Pages 221-224
A Gauge Invariant Unitary Theory for Pion Photoproduction....Pages 225-230
Final State Interaction Effects in the Coupled-Channel NN-N? Approach of the ?NN System....Pages 231-234
Meson Production Near Threshold....Pages 235-238
Influence of Isobars on the Deuteron Electric Structure Function A(q2)....Pages 239-242
Tensor and Vector Analyzing Powers in the Reaction 2H(e,e’p)....Pages 243-246
Outgoing Nucleon Polarization in Exclusive Deuteron Electrodisintegration....Pages 247-250
Trinucleon Threshold Electrodisintegration....Pages 251-254
Solving Faddeev Equations in the Interaction Domain....Pages 255-259
Cluster-Dynamical Treatment of Three-Nucleon Forces....Pages 260-264
Variational Calculations for Scattering States in Three-Nucleon Systems....Pages 265-269
Relativistic Meson Spectroscopy in Momentum Space....Pages 270-273
Relativistic Two-Body Bound-State Calculations Beyond the Ladder Approximation....Pages 274-277
A Relativistic Constituent Quark Model....Pages 278-281
Convolution Approach to The ?NN System....Pages 282-285
Pionic Hydrogen and the Low Energy ?N-Interaction....Pages 286-289
The E2/M1 Mixing Ratio in the Excitation of the ? from Polarized Photo-Reactions....Pages 290-293
Pion Photoproduction on the Nucleon and Light Nuclei....Pages 294-308
Pion Absorption in Tritium and Helium....Pages 309-316
Monte Carlo Studies of Light Nuclei: Structure and Response....Pages 317-324
Numerical Methods in Configuration-Space A = 3, 4 Bound-State and Scattering Calculations....Pages 325-338
Hyperspherical Approach to Ultra-Precise Nonvariational Calculations in Few Body Problem....Pages 339-348
The Role of Two-Body Interactions in the Description of Few and Many-Nucleon Systems....Pages 349-360
Stability of Hierarchical Triple Stars....Pages 361-370
Relativistic Quasipotential Approaches and Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Deuteron....Pages 371-379
Relativistic Effects in qq? Systems....Pages 380-387
Charmonium Spectroscopy with Antiprotons....Pages 388-394
Quarks in Few Hadron Systems....Pages 395-408
Pions and Neutrinos as Probes of the Nucleon and Nuclear Few-Body System....Pages 409-416
Spin-Structure Function of the Neutron (3He): SLAC Results....Pages 417-424
The Spin-Dependent Structure Function of the Deuteron....Pages 425-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-440
Inclusive Quasielastic and Deep Inelastic Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Polarized 3He....Pages 441-448
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