Few-Body Problems in Physics '93 : Proceedings of the XIVth European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 23

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.

Session 1.- Baryon-baryon interactions.- Precise measurements of spin observables in nucleon-nucleon scattering.- Session 2.- Production of antihyperon-hyperon pairs at LEAR.- Antiproton-proton partial-wave analysis below 925 MeV/c.- Session 3.- Spin observables and annihilation in antiproton-proton reactions.- The nucleon-nucleon interaction and violation of fundamental symmetries.- Status of the Virginia Tech Partial-Wave Analyses.- Session 4.- Periodic orbits and recurrences: an introduction and review.- Nuclear aspects of few-baryon physics.- Session 5.- Electromagnetic form factors of two-nucleon and three-nucleon bound states.- Electron scattering with polarized 3He targets.- Reactions of polarised electrons on D and 3He.- Session 6.- Electron scattering from polarised deuterium at VEPP-3.- Results of (e,e’x) studies on 4He.- Separation of electromagnetic response functions of few-body nuclei in (e,e’p) reactions.- Session 7.- A Simultaneous measurement of the (?,n) and (?,p) reactions in 4He.- Electrodisintegration of the deuteron.- Exclusive electron scattering from deuterium at high Q2.- Session 8.- Recent advances in the quantum theory of chemical reaction rates 2.- Proton-deuteron break-up including Coulomb effects.- Session 9.- Structure and fragmentation of few-body atomic systems.- Recent developments on the four-nucleon frontier.- Photo-induced reactions on 4He.- Session 10.- Nuclear transitions in muonic molecules.- Theory of formation and decay of metastable states of hadronic helium atoms.- Signature of a narrow ?NN-resonance in the energy dependence of the pionic double charge exchange.- Exotic dibaryons correlated with experiment.- Alpha-particle binding energies for realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions.- Session 11.- Recent results from the nucleon-nucleon program at SATURNE II.- Measurement of the np?pp?- at 443 MeV.- A gauge invariant unitary theory for pion photoproduction.- The ?d??r0d and ?d?pn reactions in the ?-resonance region.- Final-state interaction effects in the coupled-channel NN-N? approach of the ?NN System.- Session 12.- Cross section and analyzing power A y in the proton induced deuteron breakup reaction at 65 MeV.- Meson production near threshold via the reaction p+d?3He+X.- Influence of isobars on deuteron electric stucture function A(q2).- Tensor and vector analyzing powers in the reaction 2H(e,e’p).- Outgoing nucleon polarization in exclusive deuteron electrodisintegration.- Trinucleon threshold electrodisintegration.- Session 13.- Solving Faddeev equations in the interaction domain.- Cluster-dynamical treatment of three-nucleon forces.- Variational calculations for scattering states in few-nucleon systems.- Relativistic meson spectroscopy in momentum space.- Relativistic two-body bound-state calculations beyond the ladder approximation.- A relativistic constituent quark model.- Session 14.- Convolution approach to the ?NN system.- Pionic hydrogen and the low energy ?N-interaction.- The E2/M1 mixing ratio in the excitation of the ? from polarized photo-reactions.- Session 15.- Pion photoproduction on the nucleon and light nuclei.- Pion absorption in tritium and helium.- Session 16.- Monte Carlo studies of light nuclei: structure and response.- Numerical methods in configuration-space A=3,4 bound-state and scattering calculations.- Hyperspherical approach to ultra-precise nonvariational calculations in the few-body problem.- Session 17.- The role of two-body interactions in the description of few and many-nucleon systems.- Stability of Hierarchical Triple Stars.- Session 18.- Relativistic quasipotential approaches and electromagnetic form factors of the deuteron.- Relativistic effects in $$q\bar q$$ systems.- Charmonium spectroscopy with antiprotons.- Session 19.- Quarks in few hadron systems.- Pions and neutrinos as probes of the nucleon and nuclear few-body systems.- Session 20.- Spin-structure function of the neutron (3He): SLAC results.- The spin-dependent structure function of the deuteron.- Inclusive quasielastic and deep inelastic scattering of polarized electrons by polarized 3He.