The effective nuclear potential

1959
20 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys. 9 (1959) 615-634

Citations per year

19591976199320102025010203040
Abstract: (Elsevier)
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.