Published December 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Momentum and coordinate space three-nucleon potentials

  • 1. Physics Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 (United States)
  • 2. CEBAF, Theory Group, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)

Description

In this paper we give explicit formulae in momentum and coordinate space for the three-nucleon potentials due to ρ and π meson exchange, derived from off-mass-shell meson-nucleon scattering amplitudes which are constrained by the symmetries of QCD and by the experimental data. Those potentials have already been applied to nuclear matter calculations. Here we display additional terms which appear to be the most important for nuclear structure. The potentials are decomposed in a way that separates the contributions of different physical mechanisms involved in the meson-nucleon amplitudes. The same type of decomposition is presented for the π-π Tucson-Melbourne force: the Δ isobar, the chiral symmetry breaking, and the nucleon pair terms are isolated

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
48
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 2559-2575.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN