Phenomenology of nuclear forces

  • Chadwick (1932) discovers the neutron and Heisenberg (1932) proposes the first Phenomenology (Isospin).
  • Yukawa (1935) and his Meson Hypothesis
  • Discovery of the pion in cosmic ray (1947) and in the Berkeley Cyclotron Lab (1948).
  • Nobelprize awarded to Yukawa (1949). Rabi (1948) measures quadrupole moment of the deuteron.
  • Taketani, Nakamura, Sasaki (1951): 3 ranges. One-Pion-Exchange (OPE): o.k.
  • Multi-pion exchanges: Problems! Taketani, Machida, Onuma (1952);
  • Pion Theories Brueckner, Watson (1953).