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Quark-model based study of the triton binding energy

06 Feb 2002-Physical Review C (American Physical Society)-Vol. 65, Iss: 3, pp 034001
TL;DR: In this paper, a nucleon-nucleon potential obtained from a basic quark-quark interaction in a five-channel Faddeev calculation was used to solve the three-dimensional bound state problem.
Abstract: The three-nucleon bound state problem is studied employing a nucleon-nucleon potential obtained from a basic quark-quark interaction in a five-channel Faddeev calculation. The obtained triton binding energy is comparable to those predicted by conventional models of the $\mathrm{NN}$ force.

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I. INTRODUCTION

  • During the last decade the development of quark-model based interactions for the hadronic force has led to nucleonnucleon (NN) potentials that provide a fairly reliable description of the on-shell data.
  • Second, other quark-model based interactions were primarily designed to describe the baryon spectra ͓7͔, but lead to unrealistic results when they are applied to the two-nucleon system ͓8͔.
  • The model has been previously utilized for investigations of three-body systems (NNN, NN⌬, N⌬⌬, and ⌬⌬⌬), putting more emphasis on the mass ordering of possible bound states of these systems than on the binding energy values ͓9͔.
  • Indeed the relevance and/or necessity of considering the nonlocal parts of NN potentials in realistic interactions is still under debate.
  • Some preliminary studies in this direction have been done in Ref. ͓10͔.

II. QUARK-MODEL BASED NN POTENTIAL

  • In recent years a chiral quark cluster model for the NN interaction has been developed.
  • This model has been widely described in the literature ͓3,4,17,18͔; therefore, the authors will only briefly summarize here its most relevant aspects.
  • Using the range of values for ⌳ given above yields a NϪ⌬ mass difference due to the pseudoscalar interaction between 150 and 200 MeV.
  • For the present study the authors make use of the nonlocal NN potential derived through a Lippmann-Schwinger formulation of the RGM equations in momentum space ͓18͔.
  • The formulation of the RGM for a system of two baryons B 1 and B 2 needs the wave function of the two-baryon system constructed from the one-baryon wave functions.

ST

  • Denotes spin-isospin wave function of the two-baryon system coupled to spin ͑S͒ and isospin (T), and, finally, c ͓2 3 ͔ is the product of two color singlets.
  • The dynamics of the system is governed by the Schro ¨dinger equation ͑ HϪE T ͉͒⌿͘ϭ0⇒͗␦⌿͉͑ HϪE T ͉͒⌿͘ϭ0, ͑7͒ where EQUATION with T c.m. being the center-of-mass kinetic energy, V i j the quark-quark interaction described above, and m q the constituent quark mass.

III. TRITON BINDING ENERGY

  • The triton binding energy is obtained by means of a Faddeev calculation using the NN interaction described above.
  • In those works it was shown that, with a separable expansion of sufficiently high rank, reliable and accurate results on the three-body level can be achieved.
  • It is reassuring to see that the predicted triton binding energy is comparable to those obtained from conventional NN potentials, such as the Bonn or Nijmegen models.
  • The results also give support to the use of such an interaction model for further few-body calculations.

IV. CONCLUSIONS

  • The authors have calculated the three-nucleon bound state problem utilizing a nonlocal NN potential derived from a basic quarkquark interaction.
  • In the calculation of the three-nucleon binding energy the authors have followed the traditional approach: namely, solving the Faddeev equations with nucleon degrees of freedom.
  • Let us remark, however, that in a more fundamental approach one would impose consistency between the treatment of two-and three-nucleon systems in terms of quark degrees of freedom.
  • An estimation provided in this reference suggests that those threenucleon forces could yield additional binding in the order of 0.2 MeV.
  • If this is the case, then those effects would be still small enough to guarantee that the approach the authors followed in their study is sufficiently accurate for an exploratory calculation.

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Quark-model based study of the triton binding energy
B. Julia
´
-Dı
´
az,
1
J. Haidenbauer,
2
A. Valcarce,
1,3
and F. Ferna
´
ndez
1
1
Grupo de
´
sica Nuclear, Universidad de Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain
2
Institut fu
¨
r Kernphysik (Theorie), Forschungszentrum Ju
¨
lich, D-52425 Ju
¨
lich, Germany
3
Departamento de
´
sica Teo
´
rica, Universidad de Valencia, E-46100 Valencia, Spain
Received 18 September 2001; published 6 February 2002
The three-nucleon bound state problem is studied employing a nucleon-nucleon potential obtained from a
basic quark-quark interaction in a five-channel Faddeev calculation. The obtained triton binding energy is
comparable to those predicted by conventional models of the NN force.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.65.034001 PACS numbers: 12.39.Jh, 21.45.v, 13.75.Cs, 21.10.Dr
I. INTRODUCTION
During the last decade the development of quark-model
based interactions for the hadronic force has led to nucleon-
nucleon (NN) potentials that provide a fairly reliable de-
scription of the on-shell data. Several models including
quark degrees of freedom have been used to study the NN
interaction 1 and also the baryon spectra 2. Among them,
the chiral quark cluster model is the only one that pursued a
simultaneous understanding of different low-energy phenom-
ena based on a unique quark-quark interaction. This model is
able to provide a quantitative description of the NN scatter-
ing 3 and bound state problems 4.
Nevertheless, quark-model based NN interactions have
not been often used to study few-body systems. There might
be two different reasons for that. First of all, most of those
interaction models for the two-nucleon system needed to be
supplemented with meson-exchange potentials between the
baryons to obtain a reasonable description of the experimen-
tal data 5,6, losing in this way their quark based character.
Second, other quark-model based interactions were primarily
designed to describe the baryon spectra 7, but lead to un-
realistic results when they are applied to the two-nucleon
system 8.
In this work we want to perform a study of the triton
bound state making use of a nonlocal NN potential fully
derived from quark-quark interactions. The model has been
previously utilized for investigations of three-body systems
(NNN, NN, N⌬⌬, and ⌬⌬⌬), putting more emphasis on
the mass ordering of possible bound states of these systems
than on the binding energy values 9. In the present work
the full nonlocal NN potential will be employed as it follows
from the application of the resonating group method RGM
formalism. This method allows, once the Hilbert space for
the six-body problem has been fixed, to treat the intercluster
dynamics in an exact way. Thereby, nonlocalities are gener-
ated, reflecting the internal structure of the nucleon, which
translate into specific off-shell properties of the resulting NN
potential.
Indeed the relevance and/or necessity of considering the
nonlocal parts of NN potentials in realistic interactions is
still under debate. Over the past few years several studies
have appeared in the literature which stress the potential im-
portance of nonlocal effects for the quantitative understand-
ing of few-body observables and, specifically, for the triton
binding energy 10–15. However, the majority of these in-
vestigations 11–15 explore only nonlocalities arising from
the meson-exchange picture of the NN interaction.
The nonlocalities generated in a quark-model derivation
of baryonic potentials may play a relevant role for the case of
the three-nucleon bound state. It has been argued that the
assumptions associated with meson-exchange models
sharply limit the nature of the off-shell properties of those
potentials, once the on-shell matrix elements are constrained
to fit the NN data 16. Therefore, it is very interesting to
investigate the off-shell features of potentials derived from a
quark model. Some preliminary studies in this direction have
been done in Ref. 10. However, there only the short-range
part of the interaction is obtained by means of quark-model
techniques. The intermediate- and long-range parts are de-
scribed by ‘standard’ meson exchange between baryons.
Accordingly, that work allows only very limited conclusions
with regard to effects of the quark substructure.
The triton binding energy is obtained from a Faddeev cal-
culation. We restrict ourselves to the standard five-channel
case; i.e., we consider only the
1
S
0
and
3
S
1
-
3
D
1
NN partial
waves, those which provide the bulk contribution to the
three-nucleon binding energy. The three-body Faddeev equa-
tions will be solved in momentum space, making use of
separable finite-rank expansions of the two-body interac-
tions.
The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II we introduce
the basic quark-quark Hamiltonian and we describe the
method to obtain the RGM NN interaction. In Sec. III we
provide details about the finite-rank expansions of the quark-
model based potentials which enter in the Faddeev calcula-
tions of the triton binding energy and we present results for
the three-body system. Finally, some concluding remarks are
provided in Sec. IV.
II. QUARK-MODEL BASED NN POTENTIAL
In recent years a chiral quark cluster model for the NN
interaction has been developed. This model has been widely
described in the literature 3,4,17,18; therefore, we will only
briefly summarize here its most relevant aspects. It contains,
as a consequence of chiral symmetry breaking, a pseudo-
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scalar and a scalar exchange between constituent quarks
coming from the Lagrangian
L
ch
g
ch
F
q
2
¯
i
5
, 1
where F(q
2
) is a monopole form factor:
F
q
2
2
2
q
2
1/2
. 2
determines the scale of chiral symmetry breaking, being
bound between 1 GeV and 600 MeV 19. The chiral cou-
pling constant g
ch
is chosen to reproduce the experimental
NN coupling constant.
From the above Lagrangian a pseudoscalar (PS) and a
scalar S potential between quarks can be easily derived in
the nonrelativistic approximation:
V
ij
PS
q
⫽⫺
g
ch
2
4m
q
2
2
2
q
2
i
q
j
q
m
PS
2
q
2
i
j
, 3
V
ij
S
q
⫽⫺g
ch
2
2
2
q
2
1
m
S
2
q
2
. 4
Using the range of values for
given above yields a
N mass difference due to the pseudoscalar interaction
between 150 and 200 MeV. The rest of the mass difference,
up to the experimental value, must have its origin in pertur-
bative processes. In the present model, this is taken into ac-
count through the one-gluon-exchange potential 20
V
ij
OGE
q
s
i
j
q
2
4m
q
2
1
2
3
i
j
4m
q
2
q
q
(2)
i
j
(2)
q
2
, 5
where the s are the color Gell-Mann matrices and
s
is the
strong coupling constant.
For the present study we make use of the nonlocal NN
potential derived through a Lippmann-Schwinger formula-
tion of the RGM equations in momentum space 18. The
formulation of the RGM for a system of two baryons B
1
and
B
2
needs the wave function of the two-baryon system con-
structed from the one-baryon wave functions. The two-
baryon wave function can be written as
B
1
B
2
A
P
B
1
B
2
ST
A
P
B
1
p
B
1
B
2
p
B
2
B
1
B
2
ST
c
2
3
兴兴
, 6
where A is the antisymmetrizer of the six-quark system,
(P
) is the relative wave function of the two clusters,
B
i
(p
B
i
) is the internal spatial wave function of the baryon
B
i
, and
B
i
are the internal coordinates of the three quarks of
baryon B
i
.
B
i
B
2
ST
denotes spin-isospin wave function of the
two-baryon system coupled to spin S and isospin (T), and,
finally,
c
2
3
is the product of two color singlets.
The dynamics of the system is governed by the Schro
¨
-
dinger equation
H E
T
0
H E
T
0, 7
where
TABLE I. Quark-model parameters. The values in brackets are
used for a correct description of the deuteron.
m
q
MeV 313
b
a
fm 0.518
s
0.4977
g
ch
2
6.60 6.86
m
S
(fm
1
) 3.400
m
PS
(fm
1
) 0.70
(fm
1
) 4.47
a
b is the parameter of the harmonic oscillator wave function used
for each quark
(x)(1/
b
2
)
(3/4)
e
(x
2
/2b
2
)
.
TABLE II. NN properties.
Quark model Nijm II 22 Bonn B 21 Expt.
Low-energy scattering parameters
1
S
0
a
s
fm 23.759 23.739 23.750 23.74 0.02
r
s
fm 2.68 2.67 2.71 2.77 0.05
3
S
1
a
t
fm 5.461 5.418 5.424 5.419 0.007
r
t
fm 1.820 1.753 1.761 1.753 0.008
Deuteron properties
d
MeV 2.2242 2.2246 2.2246 2.224575
P
D
% 4.85 5.64 4.99
Q
d
(fm
2
) 0.276 0.271 0.278 0.28590.0003
A
S
(fm
1/2
) 0.891 0.8845 0.8860 0.88460.0009
A
D
/A
S
0.0257 0.0252 0.0264 0.0256 0.0004
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´
-DI
´
AZ, HAIDENBAUER, VALCARCE, AND FERNA
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H
i 1
N
p
i
2
2m
q
i j
V
ij
T
c.m.
, 8
with T
c.m.
being the center-of-mass kinetic energy, V
ij
the
quark-quark interaction described above, and m
q
the con-
stituent quark mass.
Assuming the functional form
B
p
b
2
3/4
e
b
2
p
2
/2
, 9
where b is related to the size of the nucleon quark core, Eq.
7 can be written in the following way, after the integration
of the internal cluster degrees of freedom:
P
2
2
E
P
V
D
P
,P
i
W
L
P
,P
i
P
dP
i
0.
10
V
D
(P
,P
i
) is the direct RGM kernel and W
L
(P
,P
i
) is the
exchange RGM kernel, composed of three different terms
W
L
P
,P
i
T
L
P
,P
i
V
L
P
,P
i
E E
in
K
L
P
,P
i
,
11
where E
in
is the internal energy of the two-body system,
T
L
(P
,P
i
) is the kinetic energy exchange kernel, V
L
(P
,P
i
)is
the potential energy exchange kernel, and K
L
(P
,P
i
) is the
exchange norm kernel. Note that if we do not mind how
V
D
(P
,P
i
) and W
L
(P
,P
i
) were derived microscopically, Eq.
10 can be regarded as a general single-channel equation of
motion with including energy-dependent nonlocal potential.
V
D
(P
,P
i
), which contains the direct RGM potential, and
W
L
(P
,P
i
), which contains the exchange RGM potential
coming from quark antisymmetry, constitute our energy-
dependent nonlocal potential. In our case E
in
2m
N
what
makes our potential almost energy independent, because the
center-of-mass energy of the two-body system, E, is much
smaller than the internal energy E
in
.
The potential yields a fairly good reproduction of the ex-
perimental data up to laboratory energies of 250 MeV. For a
correct description of the
1
S
0
phase shift it is necessary to
take into account the coupling to the
5
D
0
N channel 17,
which provides an isospin-dependent mechanism generating
the additional attraction in this channel. This is implemented
in our calculation generalizing Eq. 10 to a coupled channel
scheme. It implies a modification of Eq. 11 with an addi-
tional term which contains the NNN coupling. The pa-
rameters used are summarized in Table I. In Table II we
present the results for the low-energy scattering data and the
deuteron properties of the present model together with values
of some standard NN potentials 21,22 and experimental
data. It is known that a charge symmetry breaking term
should be included in the interaction if one wants to repro-
duce those quantities simultaneously 23. This is taken into
account by a slight modification of the chiral coupling con-
stant to reproduce the deuteron and the low-energy scattering
parameters see Table I. We also show, in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,
the
1
S
0
and
3
S
1
-
3
D
1
phase shifts and the mixing parameter
1
in comparison to results from phase-shift analyses 24
26.
FIG. 1.
1
S
0
NN phase shift. The solid line is the result for the
nonlocal quark-model potential. The dotted line shows the result of
the separable representation of the nonlocal quark-model potential.
The squares, diamonds, and triangles are the experimental data
taken from Refs. 24, 25, and 26, respectively.
FIG. 2. Phase shifts for the
3
S
1
and
3
D
1
partial waves. Same
description as in Fig. 1 except for the dotted line which is not
shown.
TABLE III. Expansion lab energies E
in MeV used in the EST representations of the quark-model
potential.
d
refers to the deuteron binding energy. l
is the boundary condition chosen for the angular
momentum l
of the initial state 30,31.
Partial wave (E
,l
)
1
S
0
(NN)
5
D
0
(N) 0,0兲共50,0兲共300,0兲共20,0兲共20,2兲共50,0
3
S
1
-
3
D
1
d
100,0兲共175,2兲共300,2兲共50,0兲共50,2
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III. TRITON BINDING ENERGY
The triton binding energy is obtained by means of a Fad-
deev calculation using the NN interaction described above.
We perform a so-called five-channel calculation; i.e., we use
only the
1
S
0
and
3
S
1
-
3
D
1
NN partial waves as input. Note
that since in our model there is a coupling to the N system,
as explained above, a fully consistent calculation would re-
quire the inclusion of two more three-body channels. How-
ever, their contribution to the 3N binding energy is known to
be rather small 27 and therefore we neglect them for sim-
plicity reasons.
To solve the three-body Faddeev equations in momentum
space we first perform a separable finite-rank expansion of
the NN( N) sector utilizing the Ernst-Shakin-Thaler
EST method 28. Such a technique has been extensively
studied by one of the authors J.H. for various realistic NN
potentials 29 and specifically for a model that also includes
a coupling to the N system 30. In those works it was
shown that, with a separable expansion of sufficiently high
rank, reliable and accurate results on the three-body level can
be achieved. In the present case it turned out that separable
representations of rank 6 for
1
S
0
-(
5
D
0
) and for
3
S
1
-
3
D
1
are sufficient to get converged results. The set of
energies used for the EST separable representations is listed
in Table III. We refer the reader to Refs. 29–31 for techni-
cal details on the expansion method. The quality of the sepa-
rable expansion on the NN sector can be seen in Fig. 1,
where we show phase shifts for the original nonlocal poten-
tial and for the corresponding separable expansion. Evi-
dently, the phases are almost indistinguishable.
Results for the triton are summarized in Table IV. It is
reassuring to see that the predicted triton binding energy is
comparable to those obtained from conventional NN poten-
tials, such as the Bonn or Nijmegen models. Thus, our cal-
culations show that quark-model based NN interactions are
definitely able to provide a realistic description of the triton.
The results also give support to the use of such an interaction
model for further few-body calculations. One should not for-
get at this point that the number of free parameters is greatly
reduced in quark-model based NN interactions like the
present one. In addition, the parameters are strongly corre-
lated by the requirement to obtain a reasonable description of
the baryon spectrum.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
We have calculated the three-nucleon bound state problem
utilizing a nonlocal NN potential derived from a basic quark-
quark interaction. This potential was generated by means of
the resonating group method so that nonlocalities resulting
from the internal structure of the nucleon were preserved.
The resulting triton binding energy is comparable to those
obtained from conventional NN potentials.
In the calculation of the three-nucleon binding energy we
have followed the traditional approach: namely, solving the
Faddeev equations with nucleon degrees of freedom. Let us
remark, however, that in a more fundamental approach one
would impose consistency between the treatment of two- and
three-nucleon systems in terms of quark degrees of freedom.
That, of course, would require a derivation and solution of
the corresponding three-nucleon RGM equations. In such a
framework the quark structure of nucleons generates besides
the consecutive two-nucleon interactions that are summed up
by the Faddeev equations also genuine three-body forces.
These forces are of short-ranged nature and they could be
significant for short-distance phenomena like the high-
momentum-transfer part of the charge form factor of
3
He.
Indeed, there have been attempts to explore the effects of
such three-body forces on the triton binding energy. In a
simple model based on a single one-gluon exchange 32 the
three-body exchange kernels have been evaluated. An esti-
mation provided in this reference suggests that those three-
nucleon forces could yield additional binding in the order of
0.2 MeV. If this is the case, then those effects would be still
small enough to guarantee that the approach we followed in
our study is sufficiently accurate for an exploratory calcula-
tion. However, one has to keep in mind that the estimation in
Ref. 32 was done only in perturbation theory and by means
of a zeroth-order three-nucleon wave function with a series
of fitted parameters. Thus, for the future, a more refined and
consistent treatment of the three-nucleon problem within the
quark picture is certainly desirable in order to allow for re-
liable conclusions on this issue.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank D. R. Entem for providing the codes
used for the nonlocal interaction potential and for many use-
FIG. 3. Mixing parameter
1
. Same description as in Fig. 2.
TABLE IV. Properties of the three-nucleon bound state.
Quark model Nijm II Bonn B 29
E
B
MeV 7.72 7.65 8.17
P
S
% 91.49 90.33 91.35
P
S
% 1.430 1.339 1.368
P
P
% 0.044 0.064 0.049
P
D
% 7.033 8.267 7.235
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´
-DI
´
AZ, HAIDENBAUER, VALCARCE, AND FERNA
´
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ful comments. One of the authors B.J-D. wants to thank the
hospitality of the FZ Ju
¨
lich where part of this work was
done. A.V. thanks the Ministerio de Educacio
´
n, Cultura y
Deporte of Spain for financial support through the Salvador
de Madariaga program. This work was partially funded by
Direccio
´
n General de Investigacio
´
n Cientı
´
fica y Te
´
cnica
DGICYT under Contract No. PB97-1401 and by Junta de
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´
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Q1. What are the contributions in "Quark-model based study of the triton binding energy" ?

During the last decade the development of quark-model based interactions for the hadronic force has led to nucleonnucleon ( NN ) potentials that provide a fairly reliable description of the on-shell data. This model is able to provide a quantitative description of the NN scattering @ 3 # and bound state problems @ 4 #. In this work the authors want to perform a study of the triton bound state making use of a nonlocal NN potential fully derived from quark-quark interactions. In the present work the full nonlocal NN potential will be employed as it follows from the application of the resonating group method ~RGM ! First of all, most of those interaction models for the two-nucleon system needed to be supplemented with meson-exchange potentials between the baryons to obtain a reasonable description of the experimental data @ 5,6 #, losing in this way their quark based character. Thereby, nonlocalities are generated, reflecting the internal structure of the nucleon, which translate into specific off-shell properties of the resulting NN potential. Indeed the relevance and/or necessity of considering the nonlocal parts of NN potentials in realistic interactions is still under debate. Over the past few years several studies have appeared in the literature which stress the potential importance of nonlocal effects for the quantitative understand- 

Thus, for the future, a more refined and consistent treatment of the three-nucleon problem within the quark picture is certainly desirable in order to allow for reliable conclusions on this issue. 

To solve the three-body Faddeev equations in momentum space the authors first perform a separable finite-rank expansion of the NN(2ND) sector utilizing the Ernst-Shakin-Thaler ~EST! 

The formulation of the RGM for a system of two baryons B1 and B2 needs the wave function of the two-baryon system constructed from the one-baryon wave functions. 

An estimation provided in this reference suggests that those threenucleon forces could yield additional binding in the order of 0.2 MeV. 

It contains, as a consequence of chiral symmetry breaking, a pseudo-©2002 The American Physical Society01-1scalar and a scalar exchange between constituent quarks coming from the LagrangianLch5gchF~q 2!C̄~s1ig5tW•pW !C , ~1!where F(q2) is a monopole form factor:F~q2!5F Lx2 Lx 21q2 G 1/2. ~2! 

In those works it was shown that, with a separable expansion of sufficiently high rank, reliable and accurate results on the three-body level can be achieved. 

In the present case it turned out that separable representations of rank 6 — for 1S0-(5D0) and for 3S1-3D1 — are sufficient to get converged results. 

The dynamics of the system is governed by the Schrö-dinger equation~H2ET!uC&50⇒^dCu~H2ET!uC&50, ~7!whereH5( i51N pW i 22mq 1( i, j Vi j2Tc.m. , ~8!with Tc.m. being the center-of-mass kinetic energy, Vi j the quark-quark interaction described above, and mq the constituent quark mass. 

A is the antisymmetrizer of the six-quark system, x(PW ) is the relative wave function of the two clusters, fBi(p W jBi ) is the internal spatial wave function of the baryon Bi, and jBi are the internal coordinates of the three quarks of baryon Bi . 

In the calculation of the three-nucleon binding energy the authors have followed the traditional approach: namely, solving the Faddeev equations with nucleon degrees of freedom. 

In their case Ein52mN what makes their potential almost energy independent, because the center-of-mass energy of the two-body system, E, is much smaller than the internal energy Ein . 

~10!VD(PW ,PW i) is the direct RGM kernel and WL(PW ,PW i) is the exchange RGM kernel, composed of three different termsWL~PW ,PW i!5TL~PW ,PW i!1VL~PW ,PW i!1~E1Ein!KL~PW ,PW i!, ~11!where Ein is the internal energy of the two-body system, TL(PW ,PW i) is the kinetic energy exchange kernel, VL(PW ,PW i) is the potential energy exchange kernel, and KL(PW ,PW i) is the exchange norm kernel.