Correlations between potentials and observables in the NN interaction

Abstract

We study the effects of the components of the soft-core and velocity-dependent Paris nucleon-nucleon potential on the scattering observables for laboratory energies, T L, between 10 and 350 MeV. Knowledge of these correlations is useful to indicate constraints on components of the nucléon-nucléon force. The velocity-dependent component, attractive at low energy and repulsive at high energy, plays a role at all energies. The polarisation P, the depolarisation D and the parameters D t, A, R, C KP and C NN are good tests for the tensor, spin-orbit and, to a smaller extent, quadratic spin-orbit forces. The isovector tensor force contribution is important at low energy and that of the isovector spin-orbit at high energy. The isoscalar tensor force effect is large at all energies and that of the isoscalar spin-orbit force rather small. The potential without quadratic spin-orbit term reproduces well the experimental data for T L < 150 MeV.