The Nuclear Three-Body Systems

The following sections are included:

* INTRODUCTION

* STRUCTURE OF THE BOUND 3N SYSTEMS

* General Characteristics * Methods for Solving the Equations for the Bound 3N Systems

* Variational methods * The three-body Faddeev equations

* Faddeev amplitudes in configuration space * Faddeev amplitudes in momentum space * Other methods for obtaining bound state solutions * Bound State Results; the NN Interaction

* Binding energy and rms radii * ³H-³He mass difference * Electromagnetic form factors and densities * Asymptotic normalization

* THREE-NUCLEON STATES IN THE CONTINUUM

* General Remarks and Formalism * n-d Scattering * p-d Scattering * Transitions to States in the Continuum

* REFINEMENTS

* Relativistic Corrections to the Binding Energy * Isobaric Admixture * The Role of the Three-Nucleon Force

* REACTIONS

* Theoretical Preliminaries; the Impulse Approximation (IA) * Meson-Exchange Currents * Experimental Measurements and Theoretical Progress

* n + ²H𠆒 ³H + γ. Thermal neutrons * Magnetic moments and elastic electron scattering form factors * Inelastic electron scattering

* ³He(e, e'p)²H * Inclusive (e, e') scattering. Scaling * ³He(p, 2p) investigations * Photoabsorption and radiative capture in the A = 3 nuclei. Sum rules * Electro-and Photoproduction of Pions

* SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

* ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

* APPENDIX A

* REFERENCES