Computational methods for the nuclear and neutron matter problem: Progress report [for the period 1 February 1986-31 January 1987]

Ongoing research in several areas is summarized. A brief description is made of microscopic calculations of low energy alpha-neutron scattering. This is the smallest system where the L-S splitting may be easily calculated. In order to test variational wavefunctions, the possibility of treating systems of light nuclei with the correlated basis function method has been investigated. A study of the ground state properties of 3He has continued. Finally, the properties of the alpha particle and triton have been calculated with the Green's function Monte Carlo method. 1 ref., 2 figs., 3 tabs