Elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering and breakup with chiral forces

Henryk Witała, Jacek Golak, Roman Skibiński, Kacper Topolnicki, V. Greco, M. La Cognata, S. Pirrone, F. Rizzo, C. Spitaleri
2016 EPJ Web of Conferences  
Results on three-nucleon (3N) elastic scattering and breakup below the pion production threshold are discussed. The large discrepancies found between a theory based on numerical solutions of 3N Faddeev equations with standard nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials only and data point to the need for three-nucleon forces (3NF's). This notion is supported by the fact that another possible reason for the discrepancies in elastic nucleon-deuteron ( Nd) scattering, relativistic effects, turned out to be
more » ... ll. Results for a new generation of chiral NN forces (up to N 4 LO) together with theoretical truncation errors are shown. They support conclusions obtained with standard NN potentials 201 , 02006 (2016) EPJ Web of Conferences
doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611702006 fatcat:6orr4ix3znaebmqqaam7dyden4