Selected Contributed Papers to Conferences,
Invited Talks and Oral Presentations at Professional Meetings




19th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, August 23-2 7, 2004, Groningen NL, `Three-Body Scattering without Partial Waves', Ch. Elster, H. Liu, W. Gloeckle.



Thoeries of Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Systems, Sept. 29 - Dec 5, 2003, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, `Towards 3N Calculations at Higher Energies', Ch. Elster



Mesons 2002, 7th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, May 24-28 2002, Krakow, Poland; Inv. Talk , `Photoproduction of the Eta Meson from the Deuteron Near Threshold', Ch. Elster, A. Sibirtsev, S. Schneider, J. Haidenbauer, S. Krewald, J. Speth.

2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Aug 27-30, 2002, Shanghai, China, `The Proton-Deuteron Break-Up Process in a Three-Dimensional Approach', I. Fachruddin, Ch. Elster, W. Glöckle.



19th Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) Workshop, Bad Honnef, Germany, December 2001; Inv. Talk `Incoherent Photoproduction of Eta-Mesons from the Deuteron near Threshold', Ch. Elster

Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics, Sept. 5-8, 2001, Aachen, Germany; `Three Body Bound State Calculations with Three Body Forces without Angular Momentum Decomposition', Ch. Elster, H. Liu, W. Glöckle, Book of Abstracts, NIC Series Vol. 8, F. Hossfeld, K. Binder (Edts), p. A22.

Conference on `Mesons and Light Nuclei', Prag, July 2001; `Chiral Dynamics in Few-Nucleon Systems', E. Epelbaum, U.G. Meissner, W. Glöckle, Ch. Elster, H. Kamada, A. Nogga, H. Witala.



International Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Tombay, Mumbai, India, Dec. 18-22,  2000; Inv. Talk ` Three-Body Bound States: Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Calculations without Angular Momentum Decomposition', Ch. Elster

Workshop on Computational Methods for Few-Body Dynamical Systems, NIST Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 15-17, 2000; Inv. Talk `Faddeev Calculations in Nuclear Physics', Ch. Elster

XVII European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, 11-16 Sept. 2000, Evora, Portugal, `Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering in a Three-Dimensional Approach', I. Fachruddin, Ch. Elster, W. Glöckle.

2000 Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and COSY, May 8-9, 2000, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Inv. Talk `Report on Workshop on Physics at the Spectrometer Big Karl at COSY.', Ch. Elster

20th COSY-PAC Meeting, May 5-6, 2000, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Inv. Talk `Physics at the Spectrometer Big Karl at COSY', Ch. Elster

64. Physikertagung of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 20-24, 2000, Dresden, `Few-Body Calculations - An Approach without Partial Waves.' Ch. Elster, W. Schadow, W. Glöckle, Verhandl. DPG(VI) 35, 208 (2000).

Workshop `Towards a Solution for 4He', Graduiertenkolleg Erlangen-Regensburg, January 19, 2000, Erlangen, Inv. Talk `Faddeev Calculations without Partial Wave Decomposition', Ch. Elster



COSY-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Nordrhein-Westfälischer Universitäten (CANU) Workshop, December 20-21, 1999, Bad Honnef, Inv. Talk, `Dreikörper-Rechnungen ohne Partialwellenzerlegung', Ch. Elster

Gordon Research Conference on `Dynamics of Simple Systems in Chemistry and Physics', July 11-16, 1999, Newport, RI, Inv. Talk, `Three Body States: An Approach Without Partial Waves'. Ch. Elster

Workshop on `The Nuclear Interaction: Modern Developments', Trento, IT, 6/28 - 7/8 1999, Inv.Talk, `Few Body Calculations: An Approach without Partial Waves'. Ch. Elster

Symposium on Current Topics in the Field of Light Nuclei, Kracow, PL, June 21-25, 1999, Inv.Talk, 'Three Body States: an Approach Without Angular Momentum Decomposition.' Ch. Elster

American Physical Society meeting, April 1999, `Three-Body Scattering Calculations without Partial Wave Decomposition.' W. Schadow, Ch. Elster, W. Glöckle, Atlanta, GA.



American Physical Society meeting, April 1998, `Three Nucleon Bound States Calculated without Partial Wave Decomposition.' W. Schadow, Ch. Elster, A. Nogga, W. Glöckle, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.43, 1075 (1998).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1998, `Total cross sections for neutron scattering from few nucleon systems. I. Measurements.', W.P. Abfalterer, F.B. Bateman, F.S. Dietrich, Ch. Elster, R.W. Finlay, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, R.C. Haight, D. Hüber, G.L. Morgan, H. Witala, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 43, 1075 (1998).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1998, `Total cross sections for neutron scattering from few nucleon systems. II. Theoretical Considerations.' Ch. Elster, W.P. Abfalterer, F.B. Bateman, F.S. Dietrich, R.W. Finlay, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, R.C. Haight, D. Hüber, G.L. Morgan, H. Witala, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.43, 1075 (1998).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1998, `Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Energy Dependence of realistic NN t-matrices.' S.P. Weppner, Ch. Elster, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.43, 1178 (1998).

National Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, Program on `Numerical Methods for Strongly Interacting Quantum Systems', November 1997; Inv. Talk `Application of Multiple Scattering Theory to Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.'



`Two-Body Transition Amplitudes without Angular Momentum Decomposition', contributed animation, J.H. Thomas and Ch. Elster, Supercomputing 1997, San Jose, CA,

15th Int. Conf. on Few Body Problems in Physics, Groningen, NL, July 1997: `Two-Body T-matrices for Local Potentials in Three Dimensions: Energy and Momentum Dependencies.' Ch. Elster, J.H. Thomas, X.D. Zhang, W. Glöckle.

American Physical Society meeting, April 1997, `Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Off-Shell Behavior of Realistic NN Potentials.' S.P. Weppner, Ch. Elster, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 42, 925 (1997).

`Parallel Computing: The T3D and Beyond', Conference sponsored by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, April 2-3, 1997, Inv. Talk `Nuclear Scattering Calculations on the T3D', with S.P. Weppner



Specialists' Meeting on the Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Model up to 200 MeV, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France, 13.-15. November 1996, Inv. Talk, `Microscopic Optical Potentials for Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering', Ch. Elster,

American Physical Society, Ohio Section, November 1996, `Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Off-Shell Behavior of realistic NN Potentials.' S.P. Weppner, Ch. Elster.

American Physical Society, Ohio Section, November 1996, `Potential Scattering without Partial Wave Decomposition', J.H. Thomas, Ch. Elster.

American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1996, Inv.Talk, `Application of Multiple Scattering Theory to Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.', Ch. Elster, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.41, 1262 (1996).

International Workshop on Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Sept. 16-18, 1996, Bad Honnef, Germany, Inv.Talk, `Meson Exchange Potentials for the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction: Successes and Difficulties'. Ch. Elster.

International Workshop on Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Sept. 16-18, 1996, Bad Honnef, Germany, Inv.Talk, `Scattering without Partial Wave Decomposition'. Ch. Elster.

XIV International Conference on Particles and Nuclei, PANIC96, May 22-28, 1996, Williamsburg, USA, `Microscopic Optical Potentials for Nucleon-Nucleus Elastic Scattering.', Ch. Elster, S.P. Weppner, C.R. Chinn, R.M. Thaler, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Particles and Nuclei, Editors C.E. Carlson and J.J. Domingo, p. 707, World Scientific 1997.

American Physical Society meeting, May 1996, `Full-Folding Optical Potentials and their Application in Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.' S.P. Weppner, Ch. Elster, C.R. Chinn, R.M. Thaler, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 41, 877 (1996).



American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1995, `Measurement of the Neutron-Proton Elastic Scattering Angular Distribution at En=10 MeV.' R.C. Haight, F.B. Bateman, C.E. Brient, A.D. Carlson, S.M. Grimes, T.N. Massey, O.A. Wasson, H. Zhou, and Ch. Elster, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 40, 1614 (1995).

Physics Computing 1995, June 1995, `Generalized Full-Folding Calculations in Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Reactions.' S.P. Weppner, C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 40, 1358 (1995).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1995, `Consistent Microscopic Calculation of Nucleon-Nucleus Elastic Scattering within the Spectator Expansion.' Ch. Elster, C.R. Chinn, R.M. Thaler and S.P. Weppner, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 40, 922 (1995).



NSAC/DNP Nuclear Theory Town Meeting, ANL, Jan. 29-30, 1995, `Application of Many-Body Scattering Theory to Nuclear Systems.'
American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1994, `Low Energy Behavior of Energy Dependent One-Boson-Exchange Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions, Ch. Elster and L. Wang, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 39, 1425 (1994).

American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1994, `The NN Interaction within a Finite Nuclear Medium', S.P. Weppner, C.R. Chinn, Ch. ELster, R.M. Thaler, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.39, 1425 (1994).

`Visualization of Nucleon Nucleon Scattering Amplitudes' Ch. Elster in `Visions', Fall 1994, Publication of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Spin `94, Eighth Intern. Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics, Sept. 15-22, 1994, Bloomington, IN, `Application of Multiple Scattering Theory to Lower Energy Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.', Ch. Elster, C.R. Chinn, R.M. Thaler.

Argonne Workshop on Correlations and Reactions in Nuclei, August 8-12, 1994, Inv.Talk, `Microscopic Description of Nuclear Medium Contributions in Elastic Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.', Ch. Elster.

14th Int. Conf. on Few Body Problems in Physics, Williamsburg, USA, May 26-31, 1994: `The NP Differential Cross Section at Backward Angles and its Implication for the Long Range Part of the NN Interaction', Bryan E. Barmore, Ch. Elster.



American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1993, `Optical Model Predictions for Total Cross Sections for Scattering of Neutrons from 40 Ca.', with C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 38, 1834 (1993).

American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1993, `The Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constant and its Sensitivity to the Backward Angle n-p Differential Cross Section.' Ch. Elster, B. Barmore, A.E. Feldman and J. Rapaport, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 38, 1835 (1993).

`n-p Differential Cross Sections at Backward Angles and the pi-NN Coupling Constant.' Inv.Talk at the Theory Workshop on Meson-Nucleus Dynamics at Intermediate and High Energies, Argonne, IL, August 2-6, 1993.

Physics Computing 1993, May 31 - June 4, 1993, `Scattering in Three Dimensions', R.A. Rice and Ch. Elster, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc.38, 1449 (1993).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1993, `Medium Corrections within a Multiple Scattering Theory.', C.R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R.M. Thaler, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 38, 1052 (1993).

American Physical Society meeting, April 1993, `Backward angle n-p differential cross sections for 65 < En < 250 MeV A. E. Feldman, J. Rapaport, B. Barmore, F. P. Brady, Ch. Elster, G. Fink, C. R. Howell, A. Ling , B.K. Park, J.L. Romero, D. Sorenson, W. Tornow, J. L. Ullmann, X. Yang, Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc. 38, 1062 (1993).



`Microscopic Calculations of Nuclear Scattering' Ch. Elster in `Visions', Fall 1992, Publication of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
`Is there any additional Information in elastic Neutron-Nucleus Scattering?' Inv.Talk at the NN and N-Nucleus Workshop, Los Alamos, NM, January 13-14, 1992.

`Present Status of Proton-Nucleus Scattering. Future Questions.' Inv.Talk at the Proton-Nucleus Mini Workshop, Los Alamos, NM, July 8-12, 1991.

`First Order Optical Potentials in Elastic Proton Nucleus Scattering'. Inv.Talk at the Tamura Workshop on Nuclear Reaction Dynamics, Austin, TX, November 15-17, 1990.

American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1990, `Coulomb Effects in Proton-Nucleus Scattering', with C. R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R. M. Thaler.

American Physical Society meeting, April 1990, `Ambiguities of Full-folding Optical Potentials in Elastic Proton Nucleus Scattering '.
American Physical Society meeting, Division of Nuclear Physics, October 1989, `Nuclear Target Penetration Constructed from Elastic Scattering Wave Functions', Ch. Elster, R. M. Thaler.

`Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction at Intermediate Energies and Related Nuclear Processes', Inv.Talk at the 12th International Conference Few Body Problems in Physics, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, July 2-8, 1989.

American Physical Society meeting, May 1989, `Calculation of Full Folding Optical Potentials and their Application in Elastic Proton-Nucleus Scattering', Ch. Elster, E. F. Redish and P. C. Tandy.

`Meson Exchange Interactions and Off-Shell Effects in Proton-Nucleus Elastic Scattering', Ch. Elster, P.C. Tandy, Inv.Talk, Proceedings of the workshop `Relativistic Nuclear Many-Body Physics', held at the Ohio State University June 6-9, 1988, Editors, B.C. Clark, R.J. Perry and J.P. Vary, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1989, p. 512.

American Physical Society meeting, April 1988, `Effective Mass of the Nucleon at Intermediate Energies', T. Cheon and Ch. Elster.

American Physical Society meeting, April 1988, `Nucleon-Nucleon Off-Shell Scattering Amplitudes from Various Potential Models', Ch. Elster, P. C. Tandy, E. F. Redish, and M. H. MacFarlane.

American Physical Society meeting, April 1988, `The Off-Shell Behavior of the Bonn Potential and its approximations', with E.F. Redish, Ch. Elster, and K.L. Warman.

American Physical Society meeting, March 1987, `The Bonn Meson Exchange Potential above Pion Production Threshold', Ch. Elster, K. Holinde, D. Schütte and R. Machleidt.

`Extension of the Bonn Meson Exchange NN-Potential above the Pion Production Threshold', Ch. Elster, K. Holinde, D. D. Schütte, R. Machleidt, Eleventh International IUPAP Conference on Few Body Systems in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Book of Contributions, Edited by T. Sasakawa, K. Nisimura, S. Oryu, S. Ishikawa, Tohoko Univ., Vol 19 (1986), p. 308.

German Physical Society (DPG) meeting, Heidelberg (W.-Germany), March 1986, `NN Scattering up to 1 GeV and Nucleon Renormalization', Ch. Elster, W. Ferchländer, K. Holinde and D. Schütte.

XXIV Int. Winterschool for Nucl. Physics, Schladming (Austria), Febr. 1985, Inv.Talk, `A Consistent Meson Exchange Model for the NN Interaction'.

`NN-Observables derived from the Bonn-Potential', C. Hamburger, Ch. Elster, K. Holinde, R. Machleidt, PANIC Particles and Nuclei Tenth International Conference, Book of Abstracts, Vol. I, C28, Heidelberg (1984).

`Quark Gluon versus Meson Exchange II: NN-Interaction', Ch. Elster and K. Holinde, PANIC Particles and Nuclei Tenth International Conference, Book of Abstracts, Vol. I, B35, Heidelberg (1984).

`Quark Gluon versus Meson Exchange I: NN-Interaction', Ch. Elster and K. Holinde, PANIC Particles and Nuclei Tenth International Conference, Book of Abstracts, Vol. I, B34, Heidelberg (1984).

German Physical Society (DPG) meeting, Innsbruck (Austria), March 1984 `Extended Meson Exchange Model for the NN Interaction', Ch. Elster, K. Holinde, R. Machleidt.