The nucleon–nucleon interaction. II. Pseudoscalar mesons

Abstract

An earlier paper examined the role of scalar mesons in the nucleon–nucleon interaction. A more realistic model, with pseudoscalar mesons, is studied here. Unlike previous treatments of this problem, this approach seems to yield more repulsion than would be required to reproduce experimental data. Calculations are performed on the spin singlet, isospin triplet state; a brief discussion of the deuteron channel and the resulting potentials is also included.