The effective nuclear potential
Abstract
An empirical analysis is made of the mean effective internucleon potential required in the shell-model description of nuclei, allowing for the presence of many-body effects as suggested by current theory. A consistent description is found in which the effective two-body interaction acts almost entirely in even states, and the many-body effects are simulated by a repulsive three-body contact interaction. The strength of the two-body interaction is consistent with that expressed by the free scattering matrix of the two-nucleon system, and that of the three-body interaction with the 'rearrangement energy' calculated in the many-body theory.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 1958
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0029-5582(58)90345-6
- Bibcode:
- 1958NucPh...9..615S