Abstract
It is shown that a schematic three-body force in addition to a general two-body force leads to a strongly improved description of the energies of A=4–16 nuclei. The values of the two strength parameters of the proposed three-body force, which are obtained empirically from energies and static moments of p-shell nuclei, are found to be similar to those of a realistic three-nucleon force.
- Received 19 September 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2245
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