A review is presented of the development and current status of nuclear shell-model calculations in which the two-body effective interaction between the valence nucleons is derived from the free nucleon-nucleon potential. The significant progress made in this field within the last decade is emphasized, in particular as regards the so-called Vlow−k approach to the renormalization of the bare nucl...

We present a new and efficient method to obtain a Gamow shell-model basis and matrix elements generated by realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions. We derive a self-consistent Hartree-Fock potential from the renormalized NLO interaction model. The corresponding Gamow one-body eigenstates are generated in a plane wave basis in order to build a Gamow shell-model set of basis states for the closed ...

The nucleon-nucleon problem is studied as a six-quark system in a nonrelativistic chiral constituent quark model where the Hamiltonian contains a linear confinement and a pseudoscalar meson (Goldstone boson) exchange interaction between the quarks [1, 2]. This hyperfine interaction has a long-range Yukawa-type part, depending on the mass of the exchanged meson and a short-range part, mainly res...

The influence of the nucleon-nucleon final state interaction (FSI) on properties of the meson production amplitude near threshold is discussed. For the nucleon-nucleon interaction a simple Yamaguchi potential as well as realistic potential models are considered. It is shown that FSI effects cannot be factorized from the production amplitude. The absolute magnitude of FSI effects depends on the ...

Changes in the nucleon shape are investigated by letting the nucleon deform under the strong interactions with another nucleon. The parameters of the axial deformations are obtained by minimizing the static energy of the two nucleon system at each internucleon distance R. It is shown that the intrinsic quadrupole moment of the interacting proton, Qp, is about 0.02fm at distances near R ∼ 1.25 f...

We study the possible relationship between the saturation properties of nuclear matter and the inclusion of non-locality in the nucleon-nucleon interaction. To this purpose we compute the saturation curve of nuclear matter within the Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone theory using a recently proposed realistic non-local potential, and compare it with the corresponding curves obtained with a purely local...