Accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking
TL;DR: The authors present a new high-quality nucleon-nucleon potential with explicit charge dependence and charge asymmetry, which they designate Argonne {upsilon}{sub 18}.
Abstract: The authors present a new high-quality nucleon-nucleon potential with explicit charge dependence and charge asymmetry, which they designate Argonne {upsilon}{sub 18}. The model has a charge-independent part with fourteen operator components that is an updated version of the Argonne {upsilon}{sub 14} potential. Three additional charge-dependent and one charge-asymmetric operators are added, along with a complete electromagnetic interaction. The potential has been fit directly to the Nijmegen pp and np scattering data base, low-energy nn scattering parameters, and deuteron binding energy. With 40 adjustable parameters it gives a {chi}{sup 2} per datum of 1.09 for 4,301 pp and np data in the range 0--350 MeV.
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TL;DR: In this article, the nuclear forces can be derived using effective chiral Lagrangians consistent with the symmetries of QCD, and the status of the calculations for two and three nucleon forces and their applications in few-nucleon systems are reviewed.
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