A review is given of the present situation in YN scattering. Special attention is given to the handling of SU(3) in the various meson exchanges. The importance of the almost always ignored contribution of the Pomeron is reiterated.
A formalism based on a chiral quark model ($chi$QM) approach complemented with a one-gluon exchange model, to take into account the breakdown of the $SU(6)otimes O(3)$ symmetry, is presented. The configuration mixing of wave functions for nucleon and
resonances are derived. % With few adjustable parameters, differential cross-section and polarized beam asymmetry for the $gamma p to eta p$ process are calculated and successfully compared with the data in the centre-of-mass energy range from threshold up to 2 GeV. The known resonances $S_{11}(1535)$, $S_{11}(1650)$, $P_{13}(1720)$, $D_{13}(1520)$, and $F_{15}(1680)$, as well as two new $S_{11}$ and $D_{15}$ resonances are found to be dominant in the reaction mechanism. Besides, connections among the scattering amplitudes of the $chi$QM approach and the helicity amplitudes, as well as decay widths of resonances are established. Possible contributions from the so-called missing resonances are investigated and found to be negligible.
In the earlier unitary-model-operator approach (UMOA), one-body correlations have been taken into account approximately by the diagonalization of unitary-transformed Hamiltonians in the $0p0h$ and $1p1h$ space. With this prescription, the dependence
of the harmonic-oscillator energy ($hbaromega$) on calculated observables is not negligible even at larger model spaces. In the present work, we explicitly introduce the one-body correlation operator so that it optimizes the single-particle basis states and then reduces the $hbaromega$-dependence. For an actual demonstration, we calculate the energy and radius for the $^{4}$He ground state with the softened nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions from Argonne v18 (AV18) and chiral effective field theory ($chi$EFT) up to the next-to-next-to-next leading order (N$^{3}$LO). As a result, we obtain practically $hbaromega$-free results at sufficiently large model spaces. The present results are reasonably close to those by the other ab initio calculations with the same $NN$ interactions. This methodological development enables us more systematic analysis of calculation results in the UMOA. We also discuss qualitatively the origin of the $hbaromega$-dependence on calculated observables in a somewhat simplified way.
We provide a summary of new developments in the area of direct reaction theory with a particular focus on one-nucleon transfer reactions. We provide a status of the methods available for describing (d,p) reactions. We discuss the effects of nonlocali
ty in the optical potential in transfer reactions. The results of a purely phenomenological potential and the optical potential obtained from the dispersive optical model are compared; both point toward the importance of including nonlocality in transfer reactions explicitly. Given the large ambiguities associated with optical potentials, we discuss some new developments toward the quantification of this uncertainty. We conclude with some general comments and a brief account of new advances that are in the pipeline.
It is pointed out that the retardation terms given in the original Fermi-Breit potential vanish in the center of mass frame. The retarded one-gluon exchange potential is rederived in this paper from the three-dimensional one-gluon exchange kernel whi
ch appears in the exact three-dimensional relativistic equation for quark-antiquark bound states. The retardation part of the potential given in the approximation of order $p^2/m^2$ is shown to be different from those derived in the previous literature. This part is off-shell and does no longer vanish in the center of mass frame.
In this work we present an extended version of the Friedrichs Model, which includes fermion-boson couplings. The set of fermion bound states is coupled to a boson field with discrete and continuous components. As a result of the coupling some of the
fermion states may become resonant states. This feature suggests the existence of a formal link between the occurrence of Gamow Resonant States in the boson sector, as predicted by the standard Friedrichs Model, with similar effects in the set of solutions of the fermion central potential (Gamow fermion resonances). The structure of the solutions of the model is discussed by using different approximations to the model space. Realistic couplings constants are used to calculate fermion resonances in a heavy mass nucleus.