Low-Energy Parameters of the Nucleon–Nucleon Scattering and Deuteron Properties, Electromagnetic Interactions with Bound Systems

One more application of the method of unitary clothing transformations (UCT's) in the theory of nucleon–nucleon (N − N) interaction has been presented. We have extended our previous analysis (Dubovik and Shebeko in Few-Body Syst 48:109–142, 2010) of the N − N scattering below the pion production threshold to treat the neutron–proton (n − p) scattering at low energies and the deuteron static properties. Our calculations of deuteron magnetic and quadrupole moments have been carried out in the framework of a gauge independent description of electromagnetic (EM) interactions with nuclei (bound systems) using the clothed particle representation of the Hamiltonian, the boost and EM current density operators for the n–p system. (author)