THEORY

It is a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
in Scandal in Bohemia

This chapter will present the background for the various theoretical predictions and explanations which motivate and/or seek to explain the results this and other similar experiments.

• Random Phase Approximation
• Particle-Hole Interaction
  • The Landau-Migdal Interaction
  • model
• Corrections to RPA
  • Distorted Wave Impulse Approximation
  • Relativistic Impulse Approximation
  • Density Dependent Mass Scaling
• Three-Nucleon Faddeev Calculations
• Green's Function Monte Carlo Technique