Modern nuclear force predictions for the alpha particle

Abstract

We present new calculations of the $α$-particle which are based on the most modern nucleon-nucleon interactions alone and combined with the Tucson-Melbourne or the Urbana IX three-nucleon interaction. Results for the binding energies and some properties of the wavefunction are given. On that phenomenological level little room is left for the action of a possible four-nucleon force.

4 pages REVTeX, 1 figures, minor changes in text, improved figures and tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett