The Hartree-Fock (HF) method was used to calculate certain properties of light, spherical nuclei using the Feshbach-Lomon potential as the two-body interaction. It was found that these many-body calculations are extremely sensitive to certain parameters in the interaction which are left arbitrary by the fit to two-body scattering data. A set of values for these parameters was determined such that the results of the HF calculation for ${\mathrm{O}}^{16}$ were reasonable. The binding energies and rms radii of ${\mathrm{He}}^4$, ${\mathrm{Ca}}^{40}$, and ${\mathrm{Ca}}^{48}$ were then calculated and found to compare favorably with similar results using different interactions. A second-order calculation in a rather severely truncated space indicated that perturbation corrections are larger than those obtained with the Tabakin potential.

• Received 8 February 1972

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.6.758