Experimental investigations of three-body systems at KVI

Three-body systems have been studied in detail at KVI in the past few years. Two categories of reactions have been chosen to investigate these systems, namely elastic and break-up reactions in proton-deuteron scattering in which only hadrons are involved, and proton-deuteron capture reaction involving real and virtual photons in the final state. Some results from both types of reactions will be presented along with theoretical calculations showing that despite a relatively good understanding of these systems, there are still discrepancies between the experimental results and the theoretical calculations.