Theoretical investigation of neutron-deuteron breakup.

In the early I96O's Faddeev derived the now standardformal starting point for the three body scattering problems.His formalism, obtained by rearranging the Lippmann-Schwingerequation to avoid the problems of disconnected diagrams in thekernel, could in principle provide numerical solutions forelastic, rearrangement and breakup scattering from a two-bodybound state with arbitrary potentials.However the magnitude of such a computing task is atpresent too formidable and numerical solutions of three bodyscattering problems have only been obtained within the separablepotential approximation to the two-body potentials.With such potentials the angular momentum decompositionof the Faddeev equations leads to one-dimensional coupledsingular integral equations which permit practical numericalsolution, whe1·ea8 the more general potentials lead to two dimensionalcoupled integral equations