Speaker
Mr
Happy Vilakazi
(UNISA & NRF - SAASTA)
Description
In an effort to contrbitute towards a better understanding of the dynamics of three-body weakly-bound systems, we present an analysis of the effect of three-body and nucleon-nucleon interactions on the ground-state binding energy and wave function. It is found that the for a deeper three-body interaction, the 22C → 20C + n + n remains bound even when the neutron-neutron interaction is switched off, unlike what would be intuitively assumed. These results shed more light on the relevance of the three-body force in a three-body weakly-bound system. We believe this conclusion would be valid for other three-body weakly-bound neutron systems.
Primary author
Mr
Happy Vilakazi
(UNISA & NRF - SAASTA)
Co-author
Prof.
Bahati Mukeru
(UNISA)
