Structure and dynamics of few-nucleon systems

TLDR

Few‑nucleon physics is a field rich with high‑quality experimental data and opportunities for accurate calculations of strongly correlated quantum systems. The authors aim to review the traditional nucleon‑interaction model, recent experimental and theoretical advances, and provide insight into current practice and possibilities in few‑nucleon physics. They review the traditional nucleon‑interaction model and describe nuclear structure, spectra, clustering, correlations, electromagnetic form factors, low‑energy electroweak reactions, and quasielastic scattering and response. A coherent description of the nuclear strong‑ and electroweak‑interaction properties emerges from the review of experimental data and theoretical developments.

Abstract

Few-nucleon physics is a field rich with high-quality experimental data and possibilities for accurate calculations of strongly correlated quantum systems. In this article the authors discuss the traditional model of the nucleus as a system of interacting nucleons and outline many recent experimental results and theoretical developments in the field of few-nucleon physics. The authors describe nuclear structure and spectra, clustering and correlations, elastic and inelastic electromagnetic form factors, low-energy electroweak reactions, and nuclear scattering and response in the quasielastic regime. Through a review of the rich body of experimental data and a variety of theoretical developments, a coherent description of the nuclear strong- and electroweak-interaction properties emerges. In this article, the authors attempt to provide some insight into the practice and possibilities in few-nucleon physics today.