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Soft two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials. II. One-pair and two-pair diagrams

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials are derived where either one or both nucleons contains a pair vertex. Physically, the meson-pair vertices are meant to describe in an effective way (part of) the effects of heavy-meson exchange and meson-nucleon resonances. {}From the point of view of ``duality,'' these two kinds of contribution are roughly equivalent. The various possibilities for meson pairs coupling to the nucleon are inspired by the chiral-invariant phenomenological Lagrangians that have appeared in the literature. The coupling constants are fixed using the linear σ\sigma model. We show that the inclusion of these two-meson exchanges gives a significant improvement over a potential model including only the standard one-boson exchanges.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9509031,
  title  = {Soft two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials. II. One-pair and two-pair diagrams},
  author = {Th. A. Rijken and V. G. J. Stoks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9509031},
  year   = {2008}
}

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21 pages RevTeX, 7 postscript figures; revised version as to appear in Phys. Rev. C