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Study of the Alpha-particle Monopole Transition form Factor
The \({{}^4\textrm{He}}\) ...
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Article
Open AccessMomentum Dependent Nucleon–Nucleon Contact Interactions and Their Effect on \(p-d\) Scattering Observables
Starting from a complete set of relativistic nucleon–nucleon contact operators up to order \(O(p^4)\) ...
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Article
The \({{\varvec{ppp}}}\) Correlation Function with a Screened Coulomb Potential
The correlation function is a useful tool to study the interaction between hadrons. The theoretical description of this observable requires the knowledge of the scattering wave function, whose asymptotic part ...
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Chapter
Shot-Earth: A Material for Structural Engineering
Shot-earth is a new class of sustainable materials that can be used to build civil engineering structures. To convince practitioners to use a new construction material—ecological or not—a number of challenges ...
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Chapter
Novel Smart-Earth Composites for Sustainable Self-sensing Structures: Characterization of the Material and Applications on a Real-Scale Vault
Research on eco-friendly engineering solutions is currently of the utmost importance. Civil constructions lead to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, energy and resource consumption resulting, in a high ecolo...
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The Challenge of Designing a New Class of Earth-Based Composites Able to Increase the Circularity and Sustainability of the Construction Market
Excavated earth is the most abundant construction waste accounting for several millions of tons per year only in Switzerland. The transformation of construction wastes into sustainable construction materials i...
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Chapter
Experimental Characterization of the Main Physical Properties of the Shot-Earth
Shot-earth and rammed earth technologies involve aggregates, water and, mostly, excavated soil, which from waste becomes a building material. Such technologies thus deserve a rising interest because of their g...
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Chapter
Evaluation of the Elastic Properties of Shot-Earth: Analytical Modelling and Experimental Validation
Shot-earth is a sustainable composite material made of excavated soil, aggregates and a binder for stabilization, such as cement. These components are mixed together and placed by shooting them at high speed t...
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The baryon density of the Universe from an improved rate of deuterium burning
Light elements were produced in the first few minutes of the Universe through a sequence of nuclear reactions known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)1,2. Among the light elements produced during BBN1,2, deuterium...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Momentum Distributions in \(^3\)He with Chiral Potentials
We present predictions for the np momentum distributions in \(^3\)He, obtained by applying the most recent high-quality chiral nucleon-nucleon potentials up to fifth order in the chiral expansion, together with t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effective Field Theory Descriptions of Few-Nucleon Systems
The understanding of nuclear systems as composed of interacting nucleons has been considerably sharpened by the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The latter provides a link between the nuclear interactio...
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Article
Three-nucleon force effects in \(A = 4\) scattering
We study the effect of the three-nucleon force (3NF) in \(p+{}^3{\mathrm{H}}\) ...
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Article
Three-Nucleon Force Effects in \({\varvec{p{\text{-}}^3\mathrm{H}}}\) and \({\varvec{n{\text{-}}^3\mathrm{He}}}\) Scattering
We present a preliminary study of the effect of a three-nucleon force (3NF) in \(p{\text{-}}^3\mathrm{H}\) ...
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Universal Behavior of Few-Boson Systems Using Potential Models
The universal behavior of a three-boson system close to the unitary limit is encoded in a simple dependence of many observables in terms of few parameters. For example the product of the three-body parameter ...
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Article
Three-Body Wave Functions in the Continuum: Application to the Repulsive Coulomb Case
In this work we describe a method that permits to obtain full three-body continuum wave functions regardless the short- or long-range character of the two-body potentials involved. Within this method all the p...
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Article
Three-Body Coulomb Functions in the Hyperspherical Adiabatic Expansion Method
In this work we describe a numerical method devised to compute continuum three-body wave functions. The method is implemented using the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion for the three-body wave function impos...
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Article
Structure and dynamics of few-helium clusters using soft-core potentials
In this work we investigate the structure and dynamics of small clusters of Helium atoms. We consider bound states of clusters having A = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 atoms and continuum states in the three-atom system. Motivat...
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Article
Testing Nucleon–nucleon Potentials in Three- and Four-nucleon Scattering Observables
We present a theoretical study of three- and four-nucleon continuum within the hyperspherical harmonics method, using a representative variety of realistic nucleon–nucleon potential models, i.e. one of phenome...
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Article
Efimov Physics in Small Bosonic Clusters
We study small clusters of bosons, A = 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, characterized by a resonant interaction. Firstly, we use a soft-gaussian interaction that reproduces the values of the dimer binding energy and the atom-atom ...
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Article
Effect of Three Nucleon Forces in p − 3He Scattering
The effect of the inclusion of different models of three nucleon (3N) forces in p − 3He elastic scattering at low energies is studied. Two models have been considered: one derived from effective field theory at n...
