The Three-Body Force in the Three-Nucleon System [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Symposium Held at The George Washington University Washington, D.C., April 24–26, 1986 / edited by B. L. Berman, B. F. Gibson.

Executive summary -- The theory of the three nucleon force -- Three-particle systems at low and intermediate energies -- Electromagnetic observables and the three-body force -- Three-nucleon interaction in nuclei, nuclear and neutron matter -- The bound-state properties summary and recommendations of working group 1 -- Three-body forces and nuclear problems -- Many-nucleon forces and currents derived from the explicit treatment of ?-isobar and pion degrees of freedom -- The triton binding-energy problem -- The isospin structure of the 3-nucleon form factors -- The Bates trinucleon experiment — elastic scattering -- Perturbation treatment of three-body forces in the Faddeev equations -- The Sendai triton calculation with three-nucleon potentials -- Three-nucleon three-body force in the context of adiabatic ?NN and ?NNN equations -- Few-body and beyond -- $$\vec n\vec p$$ spin correlation measurements near 50 MeV and the NN force -- Summary and recommendations of working group 2 -- The status of continuum Faddeev calculations -- ND elastic scattering, breakup reactions and the search for three-nucleon forces -- Three nucleon force effects in the neutron+deuteron processes -- The N-d doublet scatterinq lengths with three-nucleon forces -- Analyzing power measurements of the n-p final-state interaction in the n-d breakup reaction -- Polarization study of the 3-nucleon $$\vec d + p$$ system -- Three-nucleon photodisintegration and the three-nucleon force -- Search for three-body force effects for the final state interaction and at collinearity in the reaction $$^2 H(\vec p, pp)n$$ at Ep = 14.1 MeV -- Search for M1 and M2 transition strength in 3He by 180° electron scattering -- Photon scattering from few-nucleon systems -- Vector analyzing power data and calculations for nucleon-deuteron elastic scattering from 10 to 14.1 MeV -- A comparison of Faddeev calculations to high-precision d-p elastic-scattering analyzing-power measurements at Ed = 10MeV -- Bound to continuum A-3 states transitions -- Deuteron break-up and three body forces -- Configuration-space continuum calculations -- Status of 3-body studies at the Saskatchewan accelerator laboratory -- Determination of the asymptotic of the D-to-S-state normalization of the 3H and 3He wave functions -- Theoretical status of three-nucleon photonuclear reactions -- Non-relativistic few-body scattering in the SAM approach and the treatment of the Coulomb force -- Collinearity in the reaction p+d?p+p+n at Ep = 7.5 MeV -- Absolute 2H(n,2n)1H cross section in star geometry -- Transitions from bound to continuum three nucleon states: The case of electro-weak reactions -- Analyzing power of the $$^2 H(\vec n, n)d^*$$ (FSI) breakup reaction from 20 to 50 MeV -- Neutron-deuteron elastic scattering in the energy range up to 50 MeV -- Nucleon-deuteron scattering with the Paris nucleon-nucleon potential -- Summary and recommendations of working group 3 -- Three-body effects in nucleon-nucleon scattering at medium energy -- Electrodisintegration of 3He with the (e,e?X) reaction -- Many-body effects in inclusive and exclusive electron scattering on 3He -- The 3He spectral function obtained from (p,2p) and (p,pd) reactions -- The Bates trinucleon experiment — inelastic scattering -- ?-Scalino from 3He: Final state interaction, binding effects and three-body forces -- Direct three-nucleon pion-absorption processes in 3He -- Determination of the proton matter form factor of tritium and the neutron matter form factor of 3He -- Photon and pion asymmetries in p + d reactions -- Quasi-elastic electron scattering as a probe of three body structure -- Backward angle T20 in $$\vec d - p$$ elastic scattering and ?? component of the deuteron wave function -- Electrodisintegration of 3He investigated with the (e,e?X) reaction -- The Pauli nuclear mean field equation -- Comparison of the matter form factors of tritium and 3He using ?+ and ?? elastic scattering -- Predictions of the two-nucleon absorption model for A = 3 pionic atoms -- The ambiguity of the weak axial nuclear exchange current and the many body force -- Summary and recommendations of working group 4 -- Quark induced three body forces -- Multi-quark correlations in nuclei -- The HQH model for two- and three-nucleon systems a progress report -- Past and future of high Q 2 3 body physics at SLAC -- Electromagnetic physics with a polarized 3He target -- Monochromatic and polarized gamma ray beams for the study of the three body system -- Relativistic particle quantum dynamics and three-body forces in the three-nucleon system -- Relativistic spin effects and three-body forces in P-D scattering -- Polarized target double and triple spin correlation parameters in elastic proton-deuteron scattering -- A minimal relativistic model for the three nucleon system -- Quark-model perspectives on three-nucleon forces in nuclear physics -- Three-body forces in the quark model -- The three-body force in the three-nucleon system.