Research in theoretical nuclear physics. Progress report, August 1, 1982-January 31, 1984

The short-range NN deformation potential is calculated in the MIT bag model with several corrections. The color van der Waals force is derived in the coupled channel formalism. The baryon spectrum is studied with the potentials fitted to meson masses. The production of multi-quark hadrons which decay to vector-meson pairs are studied in γγ reactions, hadronic collisions, J/psi radiative decays and relativistic heavy ion collisions. The feasibility of 81Br as a solar neutrino detector is studied by estimating the solar neutrino capture rate using information from the charge exchange reactions. Landau sum rules are applied to examine the Landau-Migdal parameters. An extended Skyrme-Landau interaction is being developed. Landau damping in the nuclear matter is being calculated. 14 references