On internucleon interaction of composite nucleon

We discuss the low energy nucleon-nucleon interaction leading to a bound state, namely the deuteron problem. The currently known method of calculating internucleon interactions is the boson exchange potential model, where the Klein-Gordon equation for a virtual pseudoscalar boson with a single point-like nucleon source is solved using the Green function method. This method is known to be inadequate in particular to the internucleon problem leading to a bound state. As an alternative we propose to solve internucleon potential problems, including the bound state, by solving the Klein-Gordon equation in which the interaction term has been introduced in a more invariant way. In the place of the single source term used in the standard method the interaction term is introduced in the covariant derivative form in the spirit of the minimum coupling scheme. It turns out that this method is not only mathematically satisfactory (gauge and Lorentz invariant formalism aspect), but also gives a more physically satisfactory interpretation of the internucleon interaction mechanism. For a deuteron bound state problem can then be solved approximately using the variational calculus. We obtain the analytic expression for the internucleon potential as a function of internucleon distances. The minimum energy value 2.2 MeV, the binding energy of the deuteron, is found to be at equilibrium distance of rab = 2 x 10-13 cm. (author)