| Summary: | This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title. === The purpose of this thesis is the investigation of
mathematical methods for treating collisions of light nuclei.
Our understanding of nuclear forces is derived largely
from the study of simple nuclear systems. Bound nuclei
consisting of two to four particles have been theoretically
treated with considerable accuracy and yielded many valuable
results. Another important source of information are nuclear
collisions, However, up to the present, only two particle
collisions have been theoretically treated in a systematic
and reliable manner. This thesis is concerned with collisions involving any
number of nucleons. The problem is to calculate the scattering
properties of nuclei from assumed nuclear interactions. These
theoretical results can then be checked against experimental
data, thus providing a test for the validity of the interactions
which were postulated. As the wave function of a nuclear
n - body system extends over 3n dimensions and is highly
irregular, on account of the great strength of nuclear forces,
one cannot hope to determine it with great exactitude for
systems involving more than two particles.
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