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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>Old Dominion University<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>Spring Colloquium Series<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>Tuesday April 13, 2010<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>"Three-Body Dynamics of
Fragmentation Processes in Simple Atomic Systems"<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b>Dr. Michael Schulz<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>Missouri
University of Science and Technology</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Understanding Nature requires
addressing two major topics: first, we have to understand the forces acting in
Nature. It is well established that the fundamental forces are mediated by the
exchange of a gauge boson, which means that this mediation is fundamentally a
two-body process. This property directly leads to the second topic which must
be addressed: the spatial and temporal development of systems containing more
than two particles under the influence of these pairwise acting forces. It is
well established that the Schrödinger equation is not analytically solvable for
such systems even when the underlying forces are completely understood. This is
known as the few-body problem (FBP). For two reasons atomic fragmentation
processes are particularly suitable to study the FBP: a) the underlying force
in atomic systems is essentially understood. b) For simple atomic systems the
particle number is small enough to make kinematically complete experiments
measuring the properties of each particle feasible. In this talk recent
experiments on the most fundamental few-body system (p + H) will be presented.
A thorough theoretical analysis of the experimental data led to a major
advancement of our understanding of the fragmentation dynamics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">Presentation: Physical Sciences
Building II 1100 @ 3:00 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">Refreshments: 1st Floor Atrium @ 2:30 pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">More details at http://www.physics.odu.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">All are Welcome!<o:p></o:p></p>
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