Interaction of the eta-meson with light nuclei

The long-standing problem of possible formation of metastable states in collisions of the eta-meson with atomic nuclei is revisited. The two-body eta-nucleon interaction is described by a local potential, which is constructed by fitting known low-energy parameters of this interaction. The many-bo...

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Main Author: De Villiers, Jean Schepers
Other Authors: Rakityanski, S. A.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1230
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Summary:The long-standing problem of possible formation of metastable states in collisions of the eta-meson with atomic nuclei is revisited. The two-body eta-nucleon interaction is described by a local potential, which is constructed by fitting known low-energy parameters of this interaction. The many-body eta-nucleus potential obtained within the folding model, is used to search for metastable states of the systems formed by the eta-meson with hydrogen and helium isotopes. It is found that all these systems generate strings of overlapping resonances. === Physics === M.Sc. (Physics)