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Meson factories and the two‐nucleon problem

OCT 01, 1970
The advent of ultrahigh‐intensity accelerators should encourage interest in an old unsolved problem in physics: What is the interaction between two nucleons?
Michael J. Moravcsik

The interaction between two nucleons was first investigated almost 40 years ago and still occupies a central place in contemporary research. Efforts to understand this complex phenomenon have been hampered by the lack of precise data for all the pertinent observables. The experimental situation will be remedied in 1972 when accelerators producing beams 10 000 times more intense than presently attainable begin operation. The new breed of accelerator, informally called “meson factories,” will initially operate in the energy range below 1 GeV but may someday reach 20 GeV.

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More about the authors

Michael J. Moravcsik, Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene.

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