Speaker
Description
Scattering experiments in systems of three nucleons provide particularly rich and sensitive data for testing the state-of-the-art potentials of nuclear interactions. Experimental studies of the deuteron breakup reaction demonstrated sensitivity of the observables to three-nucleon force (3NF) and but also the importance of the Coulomb interaction between protons even at beam energies close to 200 MeV/nucleon. Because of the momentum continuum of the three free nucleons in the output channel, experiments investigating this reaction in a wide range of phase space have been a very useful tool for searching for dynamical effects.
The results of such experiments conducted over a wide range of beam energies, between 50 and 200 MeV/nucleon, will be shown, with particular emphasis on the observed effects, as well as local discrepancies between experiment and theoretical description. Current and planned experiments in this area will also be presented.
