Reworking the Tucson-Melbourne Three-Nucleon Potential
Abstract
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We introduce new values of the strength constants (i.e., $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ coefficients) of the Tucson-Melbourne (TM) 2$π$ exchange three nucleon potential. The new values come from contemporary dispersion relation analyses of meson factory $π$N scattering data. We make variational Monte Carlo calculations of the triton with the original and updated three-body forces to study the effects of this update. We remove a short-range -- $π$-range part of the potential due to the $c$ coefficient and discuss the effect on the triton binding energy.
12 pages, to appear in Few-Body Systems
12 pages, to appear in Few-Body Systems