Few-nucleon scattering experiments at intermediate energies

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental and theoretical advances in few-nucleon scattering at intermediate energies, highlighting new results from four-nucleon experiments and their interpretation via modern Faddeev calculations.

Contribution

It introduces pioneering four-nucleon scattering experiments at intermediate energies and interprets results using advanced Faddeev calculations with modern potentials.

Findings

Preliminary four-nucleon scattering data obtained at KVI.

Faddeev calculations successfully interpret recent experimental results.

Enhanced understanding of nucleon interactions at intermediate energies.

Abstract

Observables in few-nucleon scattering processes are sensitive probes to study the two and many-body interactions between nucleons in nuclei. In the past decades, several facilities provided a large data base to study in detail the few-nucleon interactions below the pion-production threshold by exploiting polarized proton and deuteron beams and large-acceptance detectors. In this contribution, some recent results are discussed and interpreted by rigorous Faddeev calculations which are based upon modern potentials. Furthermore, the paper presents preliminary results from a pioneering and exclusive study of the four-nucleon scattering process at intermediate energies which was recently conducted at the KVI.