Prize for Young Researchers

Details: Published: 15 January 2013

On the occasion of the latest meeting of the European Research Committee on Few Body Problems in Physics (ERCFBP) in Salamanca it was decided to create a prize for YOUNG researchers, in order to promote fundamental research on few-body problems in physics and chemistry.

The search of a sponsor for the prize has been successful, thanks to the generosity of Springer Verlag, publisher of Few-Body Systems. Therefore we can announce the "Few-Body Systems Award". More information on this award can be found using the menu item on the left.

We ask you to send nominations of candidates by MARCH 1st 2013 to Dr. B.L.G. Bakker (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) detailing the significance of the contributions of the nominee to the field.

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Abstract

In this work we study spin-0 particles described by the Klein-Gordon oscillator formalism in a spacetime which structure is determined by a homogeneous magnetic field and a cosmological constant. For this purpose we take into account a framework based on the Bonnor-Melvin solution with the inclusion of the cosmological constant. We write and solve the Klein-Gordon equation, and then find the energy spectrum by considering the effect of vector and scalar potentials.

Production Cross-Section of $$\gamma $$ -Rays from (p,p $$^\prime \gamma $$ ) Reactions: Measurements and Theoretical Analysis

Abstract

This paper reviews our work on the measurements of absolute production cross sections of $\gamma $ -rays from the (p,p $^{\prime }\gamma $ ) reactions on $^{12}$ C and $^{16}$ O. The measurements cover a range of 8–16 MeV for the incident proton beam. The angular distributions of the $\gamma $ -rays have been measured. A detailed phenomenological analysis within the framework of optical model formalism has been carried out to reproduce the experimental data. The existing global set of elastic, polarization and total reaction data for protons and neutrons have been used to generate the optical model potential. The nuclear structure effects have been included in the calculations by considering the roles of coupling of the low-lying states, the presence of resonances and nuclear deformations. The potentials so generated have been used to calculate the differential and total cross sections for both (p,p $^\prime $ ) and (p,p $^\prime \gamma $ ) reactions. The results of the analysis are in good agreement with the measured data for the observed $\gamma $ -rays. However, discrepancies still exist in reproducing the finer details of the cross sections. The existing discrepancies between our phenomenological analysis and the experimental data demonstrate the rather complex roles of channel couplings, resonances in the compound nuclear system and target deformation. The significant contribution of nuclear structure effects in light mass nucleus like $^{12}$ C and $^{16}$ O, leads to an apparent loss of predictive power of the theoretical calculation for low-energy region (less than 10 MeV) of the projectile energy.

Test of the Charge Symmetry Hypothesis of NN Interaction from the Coulomb-Free p–p Scattering Cross Section and Its Relation to Universality

Abstract

We examine the results on the determination of the Coulomb-free ¹ $S_0$ proton–proton (p–p) scattering length by analyzing the cross section of the quasi-free p + d $\rightarrow $ p + p + n reaction at center-of-mass energies below 1 MeV. This was achieved using a Bayesian data-fitting approach, yielding a p–p scattering length $a_{pp} = -18.17^{+0.52}_{-0.58}|_{stat}\pm 0.01_{syst}$ fm and effective range $r_0 = 2.80\pm 0.05_{stat}\pm 0.001_{syst}$ fm. We test the stability of the results against the upper energy cutoff and fitting data sets separately. A model based on the Eckart potential is introduced for an effective description in the universal window. In this model, the short-range interaction is considered as a whole, similar to how the s-wave phase-shift $\delta $ functions in describing low-energy nucleon–nucleon scattering data. Based on our analysis, we confirm that the obtained parameters accurately represent the characteristics of the short-range physics and the influence of the up-down quark mass difference on the charge symmetry breaking is less significant as initially anticipated. Additionally, we suggest evaluating the charge symmetry breaking of the short-range interaction rather than solely focusing on the nuclear interaction.

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