Review of the experimental activity at RIKEN to explore the three-nucleon interactions

Abstract

Three-nucleon scattering offers a good opportunities to study dynamical aspects of three-nucleon forces that are momentum, spin and iso-spin dependent. At RIKEN the experimental programs of the deuteron-proton scattering at 70-300 MeV/nucleon are on going with the aim of exploring three-nucleon forces. In this contribution, representative experimental results of deuteron-proton elastic scattering are presented. The data are compared with state-of-the art theoretical predictions based on realistic bare nuclear potentials.