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The low energy systems of three or four neutrons are treated within the adiabatic hyperspherical framework, yielding an understanding of the low energy quantum states in terms of an adiabatic potential energy curve. The dominant low energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Michael D. Higgins , Chris H. Greene , Alejandro Kievsky , Michele Viviani

This paper investigates the possible use of the Hyperspherical Adiabatic basis in the description of scattering states of a three-body system. In particular, we analyze a 1+2 collision process below the three-body breakup. The convergence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 P. Barletta , A. Kievsky

This work treats few-body systems consisting of neutrons interacting with a $^{4}{\mathrm{He}}$ nucleus. The adiabatic hyperspherical representation is utilized to solve the $N$-body Schr$\ddot{\mathrm{o}}$dinger equation for the three- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Michael D. Higgins , Chris H. Greene

The complex-rotated hyperspherical adiabatic method is used to study the decay of low-lying $^9$Be resonances into one neutron and two $\alpha$-particles. We investigate the six resonances above the break-up threshold and below 6 MeV:…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 R. Alvarez-Rodriguez , A. S. Jensen , E. Garrido , D. V. Fedorov

The optical potential approach for low-energy scattering of $\eta$-mesons on three-body nuclei is compared to an exact treatment of the $\eta 3N$ system using four-body scattering theory with separable interactions in s-waves only. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fix , H. Arenhoevel

Neutron-deuteron scattering in the context of ``pion-less'' Effective Field Theory at very low energies is investigated to next-to-next-to-leading order. Convergence is improved by fitting the two-nucleon contact interactions to the tail of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Harald W. Griesshammer

The search for a resonant four-neutron system has been revived thanks to the recent experimental hints reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{116}, 052501 (2016). The existence of such a system would deeply impact our understanding of nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 K. Fossez , J. Rotureau , N. Michel , M. Płoszajczak

The interaction of an $\eta$-meson with two nucleons is studied within a three-body approach. The major features of the $\eta NN$-system in the low-energy region are accounted for by using a s-wave separable ansatz for the two-body $\eta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. Fix , H. Arenhoevel

We study the $2e^-2e^+$ equal-mass charge-neutral four-body system in the adiabatic hyperspherical framework. The lowest few adiabatic potentials are calculated for zero orbital angular momentum, positive parity, and charge conjugation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 K. M. Daily , Javier von Stecher , Chris H. Greene

We consider the evolution of the neutron-nucleus scattering length for the lightest nuclei. We show that, when increasing the number of neutrons in the target nucleus, the strong Pauli repulsion is weakened and the balance with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-12 Jaume Carbonell , Emiko Hiyama , Rimantas Lazauskas , F. Miguel Marqués

We investigate to what extent a description of 12Be as a three-body system made of an inert 10Be-core and two neutrons is able to reproduce the experimental 12Be data. Three-body wave functions are obtained with the hyperspherical adiabatic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Romero-Redondo , E. Garrido , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We have used the hyperspherical adiabatic representation to describe the system of three identical bosons in an spin stretched state interacting by an attractive 1/r potential. A proposal has been made how such a system might be realized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. D'Incao , S. C. Cheng , H. Suno , B. D. Esry

A number of recent references have pointed out that an N-particle system having short-range interactions at S-wave and/or P-wave unitarity can exhibit modified threshold behavior for various reactive processes. But the question of how close…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Michael D. Higgins , J. Golak , R. Skibinski , K. Topolnicki , H. Witala , H. Kamada , Chris H. Greene

The elastic neutron-${}^3\mathrm{H}$ scattering at intermediate energies is studied using rigorous integral equations solved in the momentum-space partial-wave basis. The four-particle transition operators are expanded into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 A. Deltuva

We consider the theoretical possibility to generate a narrow resonance in the four neutron system as suggested by a recent experimental result. To that end, a phenomenological $T=3/2$ three neutron force is introduced, in addition to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 E. Hiyama , R. Lazauskas , J. Carbonell , M. Kamimura

We examine a system of three-bosons confined to two dimensions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field within the framework of the adiabatic hyperspherical method. For the case of zero-range, regularized pseudo-potential…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Seth T. Rittenhouse , Andrew Wray , B. L. Johnson

The nature of the tetraneutron ($4n$) system remains a pivotal question in nuclear physics. We investigate the $4n$ system using nuclear lattice effective field theory in finite volumes with a lattice size up to $L=30$~fm, employing both a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Linqian Wu , Serdar Elhatisari , Ulf-G. Meißner , Shihang Shen , Li-Sheng Geng , Youngman Kim

Within the framework of resonance fusion study in stellar matter the features of system consisted of two alpha particles and one neutron have been investigated at astrophysical energies. Consideration of three body scattering has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nurgali Takibayev

Elastic eta-d scattering is considered within the Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas (AGS) formalism for various eta-N input data. A three-body resonant state is found close to the eta-d threshold. This resonance is sustained for different choices of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Shevchenko , V. B. Belyaev , S. A. Rakityansky , S. A. Sofianos , W. Sandhas

The complex scaling method permits calculations of few-body resonances with the correct asymptotic behaviour using a simple box boundary condition at a sufficiently large distance. This is also valid for systems involving more than one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Garrido , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen
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